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“For McClellan to say that Scooter Libby, who was the VP's Chief of Staff, very seldom met with Rove, the President's main advisor, is by itself a very naive commentary.”
“As things are wont to do when my advisor is around, the past couple of days have been a whirlwind.”
“My advisor is still very supportive of the Non Goldens so it's not like I fell off a cliff.”
“My advisor is perfectly helpful, but spends waaaaaayyyyyyy more time with another person.”
“No matter where you are on your educational journey, having a mentor and advisor is key.”
The Huffington Post: Anya Kamenetz: E-Mentoring: Someone (Virtually) by Your Side
“Large majorities of advised investors say that over the past 18 months, my advisor always acted with my best interests at heart and the value I have received from my advisor is more than worth the cost.”
“I especially like Tables 7& 8 where Douglas shows how to factor Estate Taxes into the Cost of Capital 30 years before death (something every good financial advisor is sure to do).”
“Hmmm. Just another example of what happens when a GOP political advisor is assigned to run a television network and hillbillies subscribe to satellite television to get better reception ...”
“Unfortunately, my technical advisor is skeptical that it would work here.”
“Note the employers of these economists — Banks except for McCain advisor Mark Zandi.”
Matthew Yglesias » ABC Can’t Find Economists Who Think the Stimulus Failed
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘advisor’.
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POL - people in power
daredevil, tzar, king, boss, master, commander, chief, kingpin, top banana, bigwig, big cheese, big wheel and 452 more...
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LIT - Iliad - key words and protagonists
depict, delegation, daughter, Dardanus, Dardanian, Dardan, Hellespont, cupbearer, Crete, Cretan, Creon, copulate and 713 more...
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work
director, president, chief, boss, consultant, adviser, assistant, advisor, specialist, manager, employee, counselor and 65 more...
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Dewitful
visions of witfulness and vision - a wise guise
revision, advisor, ideal, witty, witness, veda, druid, penguin, hadal, idea, story, history and 269 more...
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Encyclopædia Lagomorphica
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homeland, apparent, cookie vs biscuit, nullipara, c-o vs care of vs..., rear, quite, advisor, prof., streetlamp, jank, garret and 18 more...
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qroqqa I assumed from the lack of asterisk against advisor that it was attested, whereas its presumed derivative *advisorius wasn't. The 'as if' need only have scope over the first word. It's not in my Latin dictionary nor in Perseus, but I don't know what date Perseus goes up to: advisor (assuming it existed) could have been mediaeval. Dec 30, 2008
chained_bear This is all very cool to know. Thanks!
(We are still spelling it "advisor.") Dec 30, 2008
vanishedone @qroqqa: the O.E.D. entry for advisory actually says: 'f. ADVISE + -ORY, as if ad. late L. *advimacsomacrius, f. late L. advimacsor.', which makes it unclear (depending on the scope of the 'as if') whether late Latin advisor actually existed, or whether advisory is just formed as though it did. Is Latin advisor attested anywhere? Dec 30, 2008
sionnach Damn! I just hate it when the facts don't match what I imagine I "know".
Thanks, Vanished One. Dec 30, 2008
vanishedone According to the O.E.D., supervise derives from supervidere (super + videre), advise from advisare (not advidere/ad + videre). Dec 30, 2008
qroqqa From the look of the OED quotations, 'advisor' became common in AmE usage from about 1900. It is now three to four times more common than 'adviser' in AmE and slightly more common in BrE on the Web at least. This is on both the raw Google figures (as I've just checked) and on Lynneguist's survey of academic usage.
However, the BNC, which reflects slightly older BrE use, has 'adviser' six times more often than 'advisor', and I think this reflects our intuitions better than the near-equal split of Web hits.
Unlike most other -vise words, 'advise' doesn't directly contain the Latin verb vid-, vis- "see", but comes via a prepositional phrase containing a noun. So its verbal inflexion had to be re-formed in Late Latin, rather than being regularly inherited from the base verb. It's not a classical word, but there apparently was a Late Latin advisor (mentioned in OED s.v. 'advisory'). Dec 30, 2008
sionnach Rather than believe VO's false etymology hypothesis, one might just think that "advisor" is by analogy with "supervisor", since both root verbs have the same suffix.
For the record, I always spell it "advisor" Dec 30, 2008
vanishedone If I remember correctly, advisor is the product of false etymology by mistaken analogy with visor; it's just become commonplace enough to appear in the dictionaries anyway. Dec 30, 2008
chained_bear Yes. It may be underlining thinking that adviser is what you want, but according to Merriam-Webster, the two are interchangeable in meaning.
P.S. if it matters, we just changed all instances of "adviser" to "advisor" in something I'm editing now. Dec 30, 2008
Prolagus Why do all spell checking tools underline this word? Is it acceptable? Dec 30, 2008