Author: Omid David Tabibi
Date: 14:47:13 10/20/04
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On October 19, 2004 at 21:27:16, Andrew Platt wrote: >On October 19, 2004 at 19:46:44, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>I think it is irrelevant myself. Students will _always_ call me "Dr. Hyatt". >>That's ok as that is what I called faculty with a Ph.D. when I was in school. >>Others will call me (more rarely) "Professor Hyatt". Students that I know > >A British professor, who taught me at University, said that the only important >distinction between referring to yourself as professor or Dr. came when making >dinner reservations. In the UK reserve it under Professor and in the US under >Dr. if you want one of the better tables! Merriam-Webster Dictionary: professor \pre-fe-ser\ n : a teacher at a university or college; esp : a faculty member of the highest academic rank professorial \pro-fe-sor-e-el, pra-\ adj professorship n A teacher at a university or college can be called a "professor", even if he doesn't have a PhD (in contrast to the term "Dr"). But in non-English speaking countries there is a seperate word for "a teacher at a university or college", and the term "professor" means someone with PhD but with higher rank than "Dr". So in the US the term "Dr" is better than "Prof" for common usage, while in most of Europe it is vice versa. I'm not sure about Britain though. In Britain do they use the term "professor" also for a teacher at a university or college who is not necessarily a PhD? > >Andy.
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