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Post by Geoff on Oct 9, 2009 3:53:02 GMT
How do you spell DIETICIAN / DIETITIAN? I ask out of curiosity because I saw a rather large signboard outside a practitioner's place of business and thought the sign was wrong. My dictionary tells me that the sign was correct and my spelling is an alternative.
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Post by Alan Palmer on Oct 9, 2009 5:37:55 GMT
I would spell it with a C, but I have seen the other spelling.
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Post by Dr Mildr on Oct 10, 2009 17:44:41 GMT
I work with them and they insist it's with a T. All our reports have to be the T version.
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Post by Dave on Oct 10, 2009 21:53:53 GMT
Anybody know an electritian or an optitian? ;D
My (1989) Webster's has dietitian flagged as an Americanism; also listed as: [now rare] dietician.
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Post by Geoff on Oct 11, 2009 1:22:46 GMT
Interesting. I would have said DIETICIAN, but the Macquarie Dictionary, the previous couple of posts, and the signboard I saw, all suggest that I'm wrong. Sorry, Alan, perhaps you and I need to revise.
In the light of many similar words (technician, mortician, musician and etc.) DIETITIAN does look odd.
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Post by Tone on Oct 18, 2009 20:01:29 GMT
SOED says:
dietitian noun. Also -ician. M19.
[ORIGIN from diet noun¹ + -itian irreg. form of -ician.]
A person who is skilled in or practises dietetics.
And has no separate entry for "dietician"!
It surprised me, also.
Tone
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Post by Vadim on Oct 21, 2009 7:15:16 GMT
I work with them and they insist it's with a T. All our reports have to be the T version. I'd also write it with the "t". By the way, it's great to see you posting again, Dr M.  |
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Post by Geoff on Oct 22, 2009 11:49:53 GMT
Since starting this thread I've come across a few -ician words (just now, clinician) and they all seem to refer to a person. Can anyone think of other -itian words that might show up some pattern, or is DIETITIAN the odd one out?
There are many -ition words in which the suffix has the same sound, and the ones that come quickly to mind are all 'things', such as repetition, position, addition, petition, etc., an observation that probably has nothing at all to do with DIETICIAN / DIETITION.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2009 12:20:48 GMT
I'd spell it 'dietician', because:
it would be the odd one out
it looks right to me
the computer accepts it with a 'c' but not with a 't'!
I think it's simply a case of there being two acceptable spellings and it comes down to personal preference - or corporate house style as in Dr Mildr's case!
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