On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 02:46:52PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: > In spanish, using doctor means both a person with a PhD and (mistakenly) an > MD. When talking in spanish, I normally tell people to use the word medico > to refer to physicians, and to use doctor only for PhDs.[1] > Is this the case elsewhere? In the UK a "doctor" is either a medical practitioner or a PhD. But it is far more commonly used to refer to a medical practitioner. PhDs usually only call themselves "Doctor" in professional circles. If a PhD were to introduce themselves to a member of the general public as "Doctor Smith" the other person would assume they were a medical practitioner and immediately start talking about their bad leg, so a PhD will not use "Doctor" in day-to-day speech. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons - - Pigeon's Nest: http://pigeonsnest.co.uk/ GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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