Tiger Buford – retained recruiter dissecting orthopedics 
Like it or not, AI will erase the British spellings in Orthopedics forever.
The British spelling “orthopaedics,” with its elegant nod to Greek roots via the “ae” digraph, is on the brink of extinction—and AI is to blame.
As American English dominates the vast training datasets powering artificial intelligence, the streamlined “orthopedics” is poised to take over entirely.
This goes for all four of the major AI players today. American centric English training.
The “ae” in “orthopaedics,” derived from “orthos” (straight) and “paideia” (rearing of children), is a linguistic relic that’s losing ground to its simpler American cousin.
This shift isn’t isolated. Related terms like “paediatric” (vs. “pediatric”) and “aesthetic” (vs. “esthetic”)—common in fields like pediatric orthopedics or orthopedic aesthetics—are also fading as AI churns out Americanized text.
With every algorithm trained on U.S.-heavy data, the British spellings are being quietly erased. Goodbye, “orthopaedics”—your time is up.