Is It Spelled Dietician Or Dietitian

In the early 1960s dietetic associations under the auspices of the international committee of dietetic associations icda worked together to standardize information about dietitians under the international standard classification of.

Is it spelled dietician or dietitian. I get called a lot of things in my profession. The first that struck me was the name had i been spelling the word dietician wrong all these years. I just put it into word and it accepts either spelling.

The variant spelling dietician is found in print in a 1917 issue of nation and in the oxford english dictionary in 1906. Dietician or dietitian are both correct. Admittedly today s members of the professional community of dietitians do read dietician as a misspelling and one would be hard pressed to find an example of that spelling in publications.

I then looked it up and phew thank goodness my spelling was correct. Depending on your english locale and whether you choose to spell with a c or a t. The international dietetics association is on the fence on the spelling.

The icda writes the spelling of dietitian with a c does not pre date spelling as dietitian which first appeared in print in 1846. The correct or preferable spelling of the term dietitian has been debated for a long time by dietitians. A registered dietitian nutritionist rdn.

Dietician or dietitian are both correct. I ll try switching to the uk version of yahoo and see what the spell check does. Spelling of dietitian with a c does not pre date spelling as dietitian which first appeared in print in 1846.

Dietitian is spelled with a t not a c july 21 2017 by phcadmin. The spellings dietitian and dietician as explained by the american heritage and merriam webster s dictionaries the cause of the confusion is that the spelling with tian is an irregular alteration of the ending cian which is otherwise exclusively used to refer to specialists and practitioners of other professions. But when i ask for dietician in the yahoo browser and in the google browser it corrects it to dietitian i m guessing dietician is a british preference.