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