Oriented and Orientated

[nq:1]What's the difference between the verbs "oriented" and "orientated"?[/nq]
Two letters and an ocean.

[nq:1]What's the difference between the verbs "oriented" and "orientated"?[/nq]
My guess is that "orientate" comes from people trying to get at the verb form of orientation. The better verb is "orient", though orientate exists. I never use it because it sounds so wrong, and orient has the same meaning, as far as I know. One dictionary I checked (American Heritage) does give "To face or turn to

[nq:2]What's the difference between the verbs "oriented" and "orientated"?[/nq]
[nq:1]My guess is that "orientate" comes from people trying to get at the verb form of orientation. The better verb is "orient", though orientate exists. I never use it because it sounds so wrong, and orient has the same meaning, as far as I know.[/nq]
That was always my guess, too "orientate" definitely sounds

[nq:1]On 06 Oct 2003, John DeFiore wrote[/nq]
[nq:2]My guess is that "orientate" comes from people trying to ... orient has the same meaning, as far as I know.[/nq]
[nq:1]That was always my guess, too "orientate" definitely sounds like a back-formation to me but both of us ... great. And one can have no fundamental quarrel with anyone who decides to use the longer of the two words".)[/nq]

David Glover filted:
[nq:1]What's the difference between the verbs "oriented" and "orientated"?[/nq]
Same as the difference between "preventive" and "preventative"..r

[nq:1]David Glover filted:[/nq]
[nq:2]What's the difference between the verbs "oriented" and "orientated"?[/nq]
[nq:1]Same as the difference between "preventive" and "preventative"..r[/nq]
Does that extend to "orientation" and "preventation"?

[nq:2]What's the difference between the verbs "oriented" and "orientated"?[/nq]
[nq:1]My guess is that "orientate" comes from people trying to get at the verb form of orientation. The better verb ... the intransitive verb "orientate", which is different from orient, so there may be a subtle difference between the two words.[/nq]
Could it be a similar different to that between "administer"

[nq:1]What's the difference between the verbs "oriented" and "orientated"?[/nq]
The latter is longer than the former.

Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
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[nq:2]My guess is that "orientate" comes from people trying to ... there may be a subtle difference between the two words.[/nq]
[nq:1]Could it be a similar different to that between "administer" and "administrate" (which strikes me as an ugly neologism), or "coment" and "commentate"?[/nq]
I'm not sure what would be a similar difference to that between "administer" and "administrate" - to m

[nq:2]Could it be a similar different to that between "administer" and "administrate" (which strikes me as an ugly neologism), or "coment" and "commentate"?[/nq]
[nq:1]I'm not sure what would be a similar difference to that between "administer" and "administrate" - to me, those two ... suppose the AHD's description of "orientate" as meaning 'face or turn to the east' is a specialized case of "