Sticks and stones...

Last night in a feverish stupor, I was trying to watch the Discovery channel. During the course of the show I was mortified to hear "disorientate" eminate from my TV!! DISORIENTATE!!! The bastian of TV learning had actually used a made-up word. One that sounds VERY ignorant. At first, I thought I shouldn't be so hard on the channel for one little mistake. But then I got to thinking about how many people were involved in that show: the writer, the narator, the producer, probably a managing editor. Surely someone in all that would realize the error. In my completely disorientated state, I was forced to turn off the TV and go to bed!