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Posted By: AnnaStrophic Pronouncements - 03/10/04 08:30 PM
Gentlefolk, start your engines:


Orientate

Another pointless back-formation. We don't need this mispronunciation from "orientation" when we already have "orient." (See also "interpretate")


For more jollity, see:

http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/mispron.html

Posted By: Buffalo Shrdlu Re: Pronouncements - 03/10/04 09:50 PM
ooh, interpretate! now that's fun. not quite sure how to interpretatize that. or is it interpretize?


Posted By: Capfka Re: Pronouncements - 03/10/04 09:58 PM
If the authors couldn't be bothered to look up the OED before they published, I can't be bothered reading what they wrote!

Posted By: jheem Re: etiam non oritur Sol - 03/10/04 09:59 PM
Matter of fact, orientation is wrong, too. Should be ortion. I say we call East Ahead and South Right.

Posted By: Buffalo Shrdlu Re: etiam non oritur Sol la ti do... - 03/10/04 10:11 PM
East Ahead

would that be Far East?


Posted By: jheem Re: etiam non oritur Sol la ti do... - 03/10/04 10:41 PM
would that be Far East?

no, but it might be fair o' head ...

Posted By: dxb Re: etiam non oritur Sol la ti do... - 03/11/04 02:56 PM
fair o' head

would that be the southern tip of Suduroy?

Posted By: jheem Re: etiam non oritur Sol la ti do... - 03/11/04 03:38 PM
Not Suðuroy, but mayhaps the lighthouse on Pharo Rhoad.

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