On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Ian Phillips wrote:
> > Curiously, I've never been corrected with "thats Doctor! whoever" by
> > anyone who's a doctor of something useful (medicine, hard sciences,
> > engineering). Also I've never
>
> Most of the people I know who are Doctors of anything other than
> medicine only ever use the title to poke fun at themselves. The
> official title for engineers in Euro-land is Eur. Ing., which I
> remember seeing a few professors use at my University. I don't know
> how common it is outside of the UK, or academia for that matter.
Never heard of an Eur. Ing. I only know the (German) Dipl. Ing. and the
varios Bachelors and Masters. UK isn't really Euro-land -- Britain decided
to keep the Pound instead.
Nils
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