This one is even in the dictionary, but I just don't see why we can't use the word "orient" instead. When I began my current occupation a few years back, my boss said that I'd get along fine as soon as I was orientated. That is the first I had ever heard of the word, but over the last few years, once I became oriented with my surroundings, I have heard it over and over and over. It drive me nuts, and the fact that the dictionary definition is "to orient" makes me believe that someone altered it somewhere along the way. Probably not a pirate, but close.

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