faglig veileder

16:07 Sep 10, 2009 

I have enjoyed this discussion immensely, although my concern at the outset was with the word "faglig", an eternal pain in the neck in a translatin context, because it gains meaning from the context. Having said that, the adviser/advisor discussion has been interesting, not least because of the level of engagement on the part of all who participated. Thank you!

14:57 Sep 10, 2009 

Look, why not gear your spelling and word choices to the main client. Here in North America, we never use "advisEr", so Per's spelling would be correct (though with the term being Brigid's "academic advisOr"). If your text is geared predominantly to Europeans (Brits and so on), then keep the "e" if you feel it would sound more British. That's what I would do.

10:16 Sep 10, 2009 

Oxford Dictionary says: "USAGE The spelling advisor is much less common than adviser. More common in North America than in Britain, it is a more recent development and is still regarded by some people as incorrect."
I see doatly just quoted Fowler so I won't repeat that here.

10:15 Sep 10, 2009 

Actually, no, that is a misconception: Fowler's modern English usage states: The OED makes is plain that both forms occur with equal frequency throughout the English-speaking world, despite impressions that -er is predominantly BrE and -or AmE. Advisor is probably influenced by the existence of advisory; but adviser is preferable.

09:55 Sep 10, 2009 

Adviser is British English
Advisor is American English :)

09:43 Sep 10, 2009 

Oxford style manual says adviser not advisor; -ory.

At the moment I am going with study adviser.

09:33 Sep 10, 2009 

So is this advisor/adviser issue arbitrary, or is there a rule somewhere?