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other word that has two versions
Orient/Orientate and/or, Preventive/Preventative, reminds me of two other such words whose usage has at times, confused and annoyed.
1. Legitimate (as verb) versus Legitimise 2. Disputation versus Dispute (as noun) Edit: 3. Regnant versus Reigning (as adj.)
Can these words be loosely swapped, one for the other or are they situation specific?
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I now think that memory had been mispointed from alterate, the evil twin of alter.
It wasn't alterate, either. Alter's evil twin dates to 1475 (alter is from a hundred years earlier, 1374)
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