If that's how you write, how's your code?

[mudskipper]

Ahem, bollocks.

No such verb 'to orientate'

HTH

Ah, you're one of those people who goes to blood doning sessions too, aren't you?

[captainham]

Your all mad.

[suityou01]

Ah, you're one of those people who goes to blood doning sessions too, aren't you?

Give up before you make a tit out of yourself

[mudskipper]

Give up before you make a tit out of yourself

Benger.

[Sysman]

If you are pouring over a document, what are you pouring?

Normally tea, though it might be water.

It's only something I've really come across since this internet thingy came along.

BI (Before Internet) we had secretaries wot could spell.

[Sysman]

Orientated instead of oriented is another one.

Orientate is in my Concise Oxford Dictionary. Try looking it up.

[Gentile]

Ahem, bollocks.

No such verb 'to orientate'

HTH

Are you sure?

[Sysman]

Ahem, the correct English word is orientated.

Although I haven't come across any dictionary entry that says so, my own observations suggest that the Yanks prefer the short form.

[yasockie]

It's the spell checkers - if it's not red people assume it's fine hen you're / yours and all the mistakes that are otherwise valid English words in another context.

Unfortunately same goes for coding - you can write a perfectly valid and executable code that will compile or interpret just fine, but it won't do what it's supposed to.
For all of the above reasons I tend code in as high level langauge as possible.
For communicating with humans, unfortunately I have to use English, which is not easy to parse and does not have a strict mode therefore I use a moderately plain variant of it to try and get as much across as possible...

[Gentile]

Although I haven't come across any dictionary entry that says so, my own observations suggest that the Yanks prefer the short form.

Yep, I think that's right. The Yanks say "oriented" (and so do I most times - it's clearly crept into my usage at some point, probably from all that talk of object-oriented programming). But the formal British English appears to be "orientated".