wordsmithing q...

[Dien Rice]

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

How about in the UK?

How 'bout in Australia?

Thanks.

-- TW

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=site:.ac.uk+advisor

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

Australia:

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

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

Best wishes :)

Dien