On Wed Dec 18, 2024 at 2:15 AM CET, onf wrote:
> On Wed Dec 18, 2024 at 12:14 AM CET, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> > There are a few other words that don't follow the pattern.
> > "filtrate" is the fluid that has been filtered, but I don't
> > think "to filtrate" is a valid word.  And "orientation" is
> > the act or result of orienting, not "orientating".
>
> I didn't mean to imply that it's right this way (although according to
> Oxford, it is[1]). I was just pointing out that it didn't sound wrong
> to me (whereas your examples do; I don't know why).

By the way, although there is no entry for "filtrate", there is in fact
an entry for "orientate", and it's not marked "non-standard" either:
  orien-tate verb (BrE) = ORIENT

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