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- From: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser")
- Subject: Re: 'Professor' in Canada - what does it mean?
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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 09:38:39 GMT
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- Reply-To: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser")
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- gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:
- >
- >Could anyone who understands what a Brit means by 'Professor' and who
- >knows why we sometimes have misunderstandings about visiting US academics,
- >please tell me what 'professor' means in Canada?
-
- Yes, and could someone please tell those of us who don't understand this
- difference (who, in fact, weren't aware of it) just what it is? What *is* a
- British "professor"?
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- Seth L. Blumberg \ Warning: This posting has been determined to cause
- slb22@columbia.edu (play) \ cancer in laboratory animals. Please make sure
- sethb@ctr.columbia.edu (work) \ that no white mice are allowed to read it.
- > No one I know shares my opinions, least of all Columbia University. <
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