Ask HN: "advisor" or "adviser"
Which do you prefer? Do you consider one version wrong?
Is it a geographic preference?
I noticed the NY Times and other large publications use "adviser" and others strictly use "advisor".
Is it a geographic preference?
I noticed the NY Times and other large publications use "adviser" and others strictly use "advisor".
(http://grammarist.com/spelling/adviser-advisor/)
> Adviser and advisor are both accepted spellings of the noun meaning one who advises or counsels. There is no difference between them. But adviser, the older version, is listed as the primary spelling in most dictionaries, and it is about five times as common as advisor in current news publications from throughout the English-speaking world.
> In the U.S. and Canada, advisor is commonly used in official job titles, but adviser is still generally preferred over advisor in North America, and advisor is only marginally more common in American and Canadian English than in other varieties of English.
Did you know that there's an "English Language and Usage" stack exchange site? This question seems like an excellent fit for them, although I understand that they often reject such questions as off topic for a variety of odd reasons.
You're right! I've just tried and found the same. (9xx,000,000 for Or vs 7x,000,000 for Er).
Any Googlers reading? I'm curious about these results.
I enter [advisor] into one Google.co.uk search (I'm signed into chrome if that makes any difference to my 'bubble') and I enter [adviser] into another. Because I'm not using ["advisor"] or ["adviser"] I expect Google to use the words interchangably - the words are alternate spellings of each other.
But it doesn't seem like Google does substitute the words for each other. All my results for adviser only have adviser, and all my hits for advisor only have advisor.
I've criticised Google in the past for substituting words when it's not wanted. But here's an example where I think they're not subbing words that they should!
EDIT: For example, if I type [spectacles cases] Google will return and highlight [glasses cases].
The statistics back this up as well specifically, the exact global searches in Google which are as follows:
Advisor - 74,000
Adviser - 33,100