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ailsagirl

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6. Now, that's cool!!

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Sun Dec 4, 2016, 05:42 PM

Dec 2016

Last edited Sun Dec 4, 2016, 06:37 PM - Edit history (1)

One thing, though:

I didn't think "orientate" was a word

Here's what I found when I googled it:

The noun form of this kind of orienting is orientation. Sometimes people in their speech will form an imagined verb from orientation and say orientate... The correct word is the verb orient.

http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000245.htm

Lots of great clues!!

Is it difficult putting together a crossword?

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