I'd like to describe an act of consulting some topic and have touble figuring out the right preposition.
My "gut" candidates are:
topic consultation
consultation about topic
consultation over topic (similar to discussing)
consultation on topic
Or is it something else? I look for a noun, something like "I've had a very informative consultation on/over/about topic with Bob."
I know it can be rephrased using a verb form, but I feel that e.g. for a title, or something similar a noun form looks better.
Embarrassingly I could not find an example of such usage in any dictionary. Maybe it's not correct at all.
Best Answer
Synthesizing some of the comments - the verb "to consult" is much more commonly used and sounds much more natural. As FumbleFingers says, there is a formal sense of the word consultation which does come up. In this case I would agree that of the options, a "consultation on" sounds the best. Somewhat more formally, you could also say a "consultation regarding some topic".