Up The Orient !

[Birchy]

What is the difference between oriented and orientated? People seem to swap and change with this. Could anyone give grammatical examples of both contexts?

[ssmart]

There's no difference. It's just a question of personal choice.

[allen ives]

What ssmart says is true, in that most dictionaries carry orientate as a valid variation of orient, but I would argue that careful users of English would exclude the unnecessary extra syllable. After all, no-one would dream of saying 'interpretated' for interpreted', would they...