RE: Need some help - why do so many people mispell dietician :-)

February 21, 2011

It is dietitian for practice of dietetics and not dietician for the

practice of diets.

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On Feb 21, 2011, at 11:55 PM, " cornellmoni "

wrote:

> Think about it, colleagues...

>

> ObstetriCIAN, PediatriCIAN, CliniCIAN...dietiTIAN is the outlyer.

> It's an honest mistake. Those with more education than us...use the

> " c " . We should stop considering it to be an insult.

>

> And technically it's correct.

>

> How do you think we come across when we have such bugs up our butts

> (pardon the French) about one stinking letter?

>

> I had my very first TV segment last week and under my name was the

> word " dietiCIAN " . I didn't care!!! I certainly hope the 100,000

> people watching weren't so busy debating whether or not my title was

> correctly spelled that they missed what I was taking the time and

> making the effort to say.

>

> I'm sorry, I just get so frustrated that we get so caught up in

> (what I personally feel is) the petty issue of a simple letter that

> we keep ourselves down.

>

> I've seen more posts about this than about any peer-reviewed

> research we could be sharing that would make all of us better at

> what we do.

>

> We're better than this!!!

>

> Monika

>

February 21, 2011