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- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!gtoal
- From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
- Subject: 'Professor' in Canada - what does it mean?
- Message-ID: <Bzn1Jn.5tp@demon.co.uk>
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- Organization: Cuddlehogs Anonymous
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 01:59:46 GMT
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- 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? Is it closer to the
- British status or the US one? I'm trying to work out if a Canadian
- I know who insists on putting Professor in his signature (in a group
- of academics who normally eschew titles) is being more than normally
- pretentious or not.
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- Thanks
- G
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