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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:20:10 -0800
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- From: Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
- Subject: Re: Prof's revisited.
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- > : 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.
- >
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- Interesting use of the passive.
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