Advisor or Adviser?

[Wildcat06]

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Super inane question but it's been bothering me for a while (like, since I started grad school). Is the correct spelling advisor or adviser? I always thought it was the former but my spell-check would indicate otherwise...

 

[PsychApps2009]

Super inane question but it's been bothering me for a while (like, since I started grad school). Is the correct spelling advisor or adviser? I always thought it was the former but my spell-check would indicate otherwise...

Seems both are ok. I prefer Advisor.

Bothered me too.

I googled it. Found arguments for both - but I settled on Advisor based on this yahoo thread http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090724065947AAyhdKx . lol.

Edit: Granted I could be wrong. Actually - I think I settled on advisor based on how my college used it. (I.e., like when I was saying who was my faculty advisor). If your school or school you are applying to spells it differently - I might tailor it to them.

 

[Wildcat06]

Awesome, thanks. Glad someone else out there has spent time thinking about/discussing this...

 

[buzzworm]

This has been bugging me forever too! I never even considered "adviser" a possibility until I realized that my spellcheck didn't like "advisor". (And apparently neither does the spellcheck on SDN, haha -- my preferred version just got underlined in red.)

"Adviser" still looks totally wrong to me, and it must be because it's the more British way of spelling it, like that link from the previous poster says. Maybe we should petition Microsoft to add it the better version to their spellcheck.

 

[AlaskanJustin]

This has been bugging me forever too! I never even considered "adviser" a possibility until I realized that my spellcheck didn't like "advisor". (And apparently neither does the spellcheck on SDN, haha -- my preferred version just got underlined in red.)

"Adviser" still looks totally wrong to me, and it must be because it's the more British way of spelling it, like that link from the previous poster says. Maybe we should petition Microsoft to add it the better version to their spellcheck.

Isnt it a difference between noun and pronoun/adjective? For instance, a person that advises = an adviser, but then the formal noun aka title of the person doing the advising is the advisor (or advisory depending on what country you are from)?

just a thought