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)