wordsmithing q...
 

In the US, would you say financial advisER or advisOR?

How about in the UK?

How 'bout in Australia?

Thanks.

-- TW

Re: wordsmithing q...
 

Hi TW,

I did some quick research (thanks to Google)... It seems "advisor" is much more common in the US, while "advisor" and "adviser" are used with almost equal frequency in the UK and Australia...

What I did was a Googled university websites in the 3 countries, to see how they spelled it. (I figured that universities would check to make sure they spelled it right!) Then, you can compare how many results are found for the different spellings...

Here are the links to check yourself. :)

USA:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:.edu+advisor

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:.edu+adviser

UK:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q....ac.uk+advisor

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q....ac.uk+adviser

Australia:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...edu.au+advisor

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...edu.au+adviser

Best wishes :)

Dien

Adviser schmiser
 

TW,

Thanks for asking.

As we - in the US, UK, AU, CA, NZ, IE - all speak English, ALL ways of spelling certain words are correct. Generally, in Oz we spell Color as Colour. Both are correct in Oz. However, I assume most USA-ians would not know of the differences in some words outside of the country.

How would an Aussie - pronounced Ozzy down here - SAY Adviser/advisor? They would SAY... advize-uh... ad-vy-zuh... advyzuh

For Melbourne we SAY... Melb'n. Brisbane is... Bisb'n or Brizy. Cairns is said... Cans/canz. We like to chop vowels out of words and shorten others and not pronounce all the letters - which is why only an Aussie knows how to say "G'day mate" and have it flow and sound natural. We bastardize better than...

Spelling of Adviser/or... either or will do. Most people who read the word wouldn't have a clue. In fact, I bet you could interchange the spelling through a lump of text and noone would notice.

Michael Ross

Re: wordsmithing q...
 

TW,

Just use Google Spelling Corrections and Suggestions...

Anytime you can't figure out particular Grammar/Spelling world-wide or Whatever, no matter the term or phrase... ;)
http://www.googleguide.com/spelling_corrections.html

Phil

Re: wordsmithing q...
 

Thanks Michael.

Some more q's...

Is it common to also SPELL it Brizy (for short) in written form?

And, in England, more and more biz's are going for the simpler .com, rather than .co.uk. In Australia, is that also true? Is .com accepted as a very good domain name -- maybe even better than the ozzy version of .co.uk (whatever that is)?

Of course, in the US, .com is king above all others. If we have some other extension, we have to sit there and explain (OVEREMPHASIZING) that the name is NOT .com, the RE-emphasize it, etc. -- because it is just ASSUMED the name is .com, unless otherwise indicated.

In fact, if we type in a name without any extansion, our computers automatically take us to the .com version.

Thanks.

-- TW