Here's a post I wish I'd known about sooner.

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Linking to it, after all, sure beats typing up my own new response every time that inane little comment comes up in conversation. Not a word, my foot! Squippidreen is not a word (presumably), but orientate or - as I've seen somebody say - gotten most definitely are. (And it's hardly our fault in the US that you people over the ocean have forgotten how to talk with regards to get, got, gotten! :P)