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- From: charlie@umnstat.stat.umn.edu (Charles Geyer)
- Subject: Re: 'Professor' in Canada - what does it mean?
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 19:28:07 GMT
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- In article <BzyG5L.GMy@demon.co.uk> gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
- writes:
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- > I think the equivalent [of "professor"] in America is a personal chair.
-
- I think we'd call it an "endowed" chair.
-
- > Hence why it grates so badly when some visiting American professor
- > insists on using his title over here when we would title such a
- > person a 'lecturer'.
-
- I can't see why that should be any worse than our calling lorries "trucks".
-
- In fact that is what formality requires. In replies to discussion of papers
- in UK journals one often finds something like
-
- The comments of Professor Jones [an Ass. Prof. at an American university]
- and Dr. Smith [a Lecturer at a British university] are especially
- welcome ...
-
- everyone understands, if they look at the affiliations, that Jones's title
- is no more impressive than Smith's.
-
- Come to think of it though, I can't remember how I was introduced when
- giving talks in the U. K.
-
- --
- Charles Geyer
- School of Statistics
- University of Minnesota
- charlie@umnstat.stat.umn.edu
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