Talk:dietician

The word "dietician" is incorrect spelling of the word "dietitian". Only "dietitian" is used by these health professionals in the US, Canada, Great Britian and elsewhere around the world.


 * Nonetheless, it is used (Wiktionary is descriptive, not prescriptive). However, dietitian does seem to be more common (and older), and so I have made it the main entry, with dietician being a soft redirect to it.  -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 18:51, 29 September 2008 (UTC)


 * The coinage dietitian has not fully succeeded perhaps because it was not formed using the fairly standard occupational suffix -ician, but instead using an ending -itian that has no other uses that I am aware of. I suppose the problem was that the standard formulation would have been dietetics + ian => dietetician, which is a bit awkward. I wouldn't put my money on dietician being driven out of usage any time soon. DCDuring TALK 19:39, 29 September 2008 (UTC)


 * On Google Books, approximately half of the books which use dietician also use dietitian, suggesting that it may be a misspelling in those books. it is, however, a very common misspelling (dietitian is a mere 3x more common), and the other half of the uses may be intentional. I think "nonstandard spelling of" is a good label for this. - -sche (discuss) 21:41, 31 August 2015 (UTC)