Re: CHAT: "Mister" (WAS: Re: New Lang: Igassik)
| From: | Adrian Morgan <morg0072@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 23, 2000, 23:01 |
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On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, John Cowan wrote:
> "Professor". There are rather more professors in North American
> colleges and universities than elsewhere (and a multiplicity of deans
> to boot), but even so, not everyone who teaches bears that title
> legitimately.
I know that 'professor' in American English doesn't mean 'the head of a
university department' which is the meaning elsewhere ... and I know that
'college' is used to mean what I would call 'university' ... and I even
know - because my American friends have told me - that American
universities have special names for student year levels instead of just
'first year', 'second year', 'third year' as it is here ...
... but this I don't know. What exactly is a dean? We don't have them.
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