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Re: I think it's excessive Stephen Send a noteboard - 08/02/2013 03:41:06 PM
In the very old, medieval sense, it's correct, but we don't live in the Middle Ages. "Professor" is a perfectly fine and distinct category.

Over here in Ireland Professor is a very limited title, usually reserved for the head of an academic department in a university or college. Every other Ph.D is referred to as Doctor. So to me applying the term Professor to every bearer of a Ph.D, or to every lecturer is excessive.
I think it's somewhat perverse when people with a "doctorate in divinity" take the "doctor" title, because it's really more confessional than academic.

I completely agree.
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Woodrow Wilson had a Ph.D. and Garfield was a minister Isaac - 05/02/2013 08:20:50 PM 704 Views
Dr. is the appropriate title for an M.D. only. Every other jackass these days has a useless Ph.D. Tom - 06/02/2013 03:55:46 PM 577 Views
i've heard PhD's referred to as "doctor, but not the kind who helps people" moondog - 06/02/2013 05:43:56 PM 578 Views
I think it's excessive Tom - 06/02/2013 06:57:10 PM 534 Views
Re: I think it's excessive Stephen - 08/02/2013 03:41:06 PM 550 Views
Every other doctorate but medicine is useless? Isaac - 06/02/2013 10:20:40 PM 515 Views
I never said that. I said every other jackass had a useless Ph.D. Tom - 06/02/2013 10:59:34 PM 546 Views
You're phrasing is rather ambigous then Isaac - 07/02/2013 12:26:46 AM 525 Views
"Your" and "ambiguous". Tom - 07/02/2013 03:39:01 AM 540 Views
You're being petty and you're avoiding the topic *NM* Isaac - 07/02/2013 05:03:27 AM 328 Views
I don't see how his phrasing is ambiguous. Legolas - 07/02/2013 09:07:45 AM 616 Views
I am disinclined to give him the benefit of the doubt when he's seems to be picking an argument Isaac - 07/02/2013 11:46:02 AM 1037 Views
Ford had a J.D.?! Joel - 08/02/2013 07:10:59 PM 572 Views
When it happens, language will have "progressed" so far... jh - 06/02/2013 06:24:00 AM 565 Views
President trumps other honorifics- for a man, it's always "Mr. President" beetnemesis - 06/02/2013 02:58:27 PM 561 Views
Thank you everyone for the input imlad - 12/02/2013 08:51:05 PM 639 Views
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