It’s. Not. A. Councillor

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it is a counsellor

I know I’m probably BU

i don’t care 🤷‍♀️

Your right 😉

You're absolutely not unreasonable. In fact, you're more reasonable than Mrs Reasonable, Five-Times Winner of the Annual Wednesbury Reasonableness Awards.

Well it depends. Both can be right. They are different roles.

Councillor = member of a council
Counsellor = someone who counsels

If you work for the city and sit on council you are a councillor, school board as well.

YABU

it depends on which role you are talking about

A counsellor could also be a councillor.

Lol yes! Parking probs AND feelings

I don’t think I’ve ever had cause to write the word counsellor. Which is good because I would definitely have spelt it wrong.

I ve noticed this countless times too..surprised that it gets muddled up so often...nearly as common as draw instead of drawer

You are opening the floodgates to pedants like me…. And of course YANBU.

Or feelings and parking problems if we are being pedantic.

You care a lot for someone who doesn’t care.

😆

Surely it depends on context?

I write the word councillor many times each day (working in local government) but rarely have need to use counsellor.

Unless it’s the Privy Council, in which case they are Privy Counsellors.

My counsellor used to be a councillor, come to think of it.

Well that's just contrary.

Maybe we should just combine the two, as a catch-all solution:

Counsillors or

Councellors.

(and while we're at it, make it 'discreete')

For someone that's being a pedant, I'm surprised that you're not aware of the fact that a full stop should be used at the end of a sentence.

I once had someone contact me through my website to complain about the refuse collection. He was very put out when I explained that I had no capacity to address his concerns.

I'm a councillor who was introduced to a school counsellor by the headteacher. That led to some mild confusion and British awkwardness.

Well, it is if it’s a councillor.

A councillor is a councillor and a counsellor is a counsellor.

What it’s not, is counsillor.

So this mistake happened in relation to a safeguarding report at my employer once.

Major confusion over whether the professional who acted inappropriately was a “local counsellor” or a “local councillor”! Vastly different implications!

Oh pedants only care about other people's mistakes!

Presumably the OP was referring to its use on here, which is much more likely to refer to therapists than those who sit on local governing bodies.
(Depending on which boards you hang out on, I guess.)