From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!menlo70!sytek!zehntel!tektronix!tekmdp!bronze!kenr Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: Re: What can be done? Article-I.D.: bronze.481 Posted: Mon Feb 21 10:58:54 1983 Received: Thu Feb 24 08:45:59 1983 References: uw-june.308 I don't think anything can be done, except to standardize the English language. For every incorrect word on the order of "allegate", "orientate", "administrate", there is a proper word such as "anticipate", "participate", "exculpate". I guess birds gotta fly, fish gotta swim, people gotta form verbs from nouns ending in '-ation' by dropping that suffix and adding '-ate'. Your pal, Ken Rhodes P.S. Anyone wishing to excoriate me (there's another correct '-ate' verb) may do so at their leisure.