{"id":46133,"date":"2023-08-23T03:12:17","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T03:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=46133"},"modified":"2023-08-23T03:12:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T03:12:19","slug":"english-oriented-vs-orientated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-oriented-vs-orientated\/","title":{"rendered":"English: oriented vs orientated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring English, you run into surprises all the time. The tutor mentions a great one.<\/h2>\n<p>\nOne time my wife and I were looking at new fixtures. The salesperson was very knowledgeable and helpful and showed us a range of options. The couple at the low end, they pointed out, were &#8220;budget-orientated.&#8221; As I found out later, this hurt my wife&#8217;s ears. She said nothing at the time; afterwards, driving home, she pointed out to me that it&#8217;s obviously &#8220;budget-oriented.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nWell, it turns out that &#8220;oriented&#8221; is Yank, while &#8220;orientated&#8221; is Brit; both are correct. Interesting, eh?<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writingtips.org\/orientated-or-oriented\/\">writingtips.org<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring English, you run into surprises all the time. The tutor mentions a great one. One time my wife and I were looking at new fixtures. The salesperson was very knowledgeable and helpful and showed us a range of options. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-oriented-vs-orientated\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: oriented vs orientated<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46133"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46136,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46133\/revisions\/46136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}