[Lexicog] Re: "orientate" (was Frequency ...)

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"In terms of articulatory phonetics, I'm saying all of this with an
intermolar lateral."

Now what's the IPA symbol for that?


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John Roberts wrote:
> Mike seemed to be suggesting that this was a recent
> "corruption" of the English language.

Indeed I did.  Again, to quote that famous linguist Henry Higgins, "Why
can't the English learn to speak?"  (And of course the correct form,
'orient', pre-dates the incorrect form 'orientate' by at least a hundred
years, according to the OED citations posted here.)


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             Mike Maxwell
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