Risk averse vs "risk adverse"

"Risk adverse"? Where do you hear that?

It seems to appear more often than "risk averse" on other branches.
In fact it seems to have supplanted it completely

Interesting, I either haven't come across it or have read right over it.

Keep this place going for another decade or so, and there will be an entire strand of English not spoken anywhere else. Where "definately" and "looser" are standard spelling, and people want informations about accommodations, for their upcoming trips to Columbia or Manhatten.

You're probably right, shilgia, but you forget that all those folks want "advise". ROTFLMAO

Could this be a non-USA thing? In most parts of the US (not sure about Canada) I think people tend strongly to stress the second syllable in "averse," and strongly to stress the first in "adverse." Plus, the "a" in "averse" is a schwa sound, while the "a" in "adverse" is an æ sound. Unless I'm mistaken, in most other English-speaking countries the distinction is not so clear. Irregardless, I don't think I've ever noticed it.

CK

Irregardless

Sorry to be pedantic, but isn't that a double negative?

It's one I hear a lot, and it 's one that still bothers me.

It doesn't bother me, it irritates me. ;)

Yes, it was my little joke; I'm not much for smileys. It's one I hear a lot, and it 's one that still bothers me.

CK

But does it aggravate either of us, or is neither of us that pedantic?

CK