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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 00:58:01 GMT
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- From: Graham Toal <gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
- Subject: Prof's revisited.
- Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu
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- Tired of the sniping from up north and his refusal to give a straight
- answer to a straight question, I put a request on alt.usage.english for
- an explanation of 'professor' in Canada. Here's the helpful answer
- I got from an echte Canadian.
-
- (Did none of you guys know the answer, or did you think
- it was too obvious, or didn't you understand what I was getting at because
- you didn't realise that Professor in Britain really means something...)
-
- G
- ---
- : Subject: Re: 'Professor' in Canada - what does it mean?
- : Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- : Organization: University of Waterloo
- :
- :
- : It is closer, if not identical, to the US usage, viz. someone who gets a job
- : in academia is a "professor", at least if her office has a window :-)
- : People who insist on its usage are considered pretentious unless they attained
- : the rank of FULL PROFESSOR, in which case they are considered PRETENTIOUS.
-