The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[french frank]

The implication here is that 'Rev.' would be correct, but even there I'd omit it.

Dr no full stop, Rev. full stop, Revd no full stop.

[Pulcinella]

... and me. (I watched "Inferno" last night.)

Q: Should it have been "Dr.. Who"? Or, does that just look silly?

Dr for Doctor is really a contraction, not an abbreviation, so even in situations/publications where full stops are used it does not warrant one.

Contractions are a type of abbreviation in which letters from the middle of the word are omitted. Examples include: Dr (Doctor), St (Saint), Ltd (Limited), Revd (Reverend).

The implication here is that 'Rev.' would be correct, but even there I'd omit it.

[AuntDaisy]

(I have Dr on my bank cards to inspire confidence in the people I'm paying. No point changing after I stopped teaching). One thing I hate is the title Doctor rather than Dr. Who addresses anyone as Mister or (what?) Missus? As in Me and the missus? Doctorates are ten a penny now anyway. They give them away in the Co-op if you buy 3 easy meals,

... and me. (I watched "Inferno" last night.)

Q: Should it have been "Dr.. Who"? Or, does that just look silly?

[Pulcinella]

I had to re-read that to get over Dr. Who messing up my brain's interpretation of the sentences!

Me too!

[oddoneout]

(I have Dr on my bank cards to inspire confidence in the people I'm paying. No point changing after I stopped teaching). One thing I hate is the title Doctor rather than Dr. Who addresses anyone as Mister or (what?) Missus? As in Me and the missus? Doctorates are ten a penny now anyway. They give them away in the Co-op if you buy 3 easy meals,

I had to re-read that to get over Dr. Who messing up my brain's interpretation of the sentences!

[oddoneout]

Clearly the form of address is designed to denote the medical authority required to curate a programme of such lofty, therapeutic ambition!

Perhaps they thought the whiff of "science" would pacify those of the R3 audience who would question what the hell such twaddle was doing under the R3 banner?

[AuntDaisy]

(I have Dr on my bank cards to inspire confidence in the people I'm paying. No point changing after I stopped teaching). One thing I hate is the title Doctor rather than Dr. Who addresses anyone as Mister or (what?) Missus? As in Me and the missus? Doctorates are ten a penny now anyway. They give them away in the Co-op if you buy 3 easy meals,

Do they offer 10% discount on Tuesdays? E.g. throw in a free Masters...

[french frank]

Clearly the form of address is designed to denote the medical authority required to curate a programme of such lofty, therapeutic ambition!

(I have Dr on my bank cards to inspire confidence in the people I'm paying. No point changing after I stopped teaching). One thing I hate is the title Doctor rather than Dr. Who addresses anyone as Mister or (what?) Missus? As in Me and the missus? Doctorates are ten a penny now anyway. They give them away in the Co-op if you buy 3 easy meals,

[Sir Velo]

But those trailers - especially for the anodyne pap of Classical Unwind perpetrated by "Dr. Sian Williams" (who except the terminally insecure would insist, like this one does, on the "Dr." in this context?) - are the limit.

Clearly the form of address is designed to denote the medical authority required to curate a programme of such lofty, therapeutic ambition!

[Ein Heldenleben]

... I think it's also appropriate within the academical community for professional academics to have their doctorates acknowledged - for professional porpoises only, though. Plus the occasional honorary one - Dr Johnson, Dr Burney. And possibly ecclesiastics. But certainly not in this case

I deleted my original post so this excerpted sentence doesn’t make sense without it. I deleted it because it’s just not worth writing about but to summarise I think it’s misleading to use the title Doctor in any field that has a medical element. It’s perfectly ok to use the title doctor in an academic context where it might be important professionally . Mark Porter is a medically qualified doctor (specifically he is a Bachelor of Medicine ). He also is a practising GP. Quite a few medical doctors do not use the title when they give up their licence to practise ,

[vinteuil]

Mister Jones could of course have been a consultant (though unlikely to be working at the GP surgery!).

... my first vacation employment was as a hospital porter at a London hospital - I was firmly put in my place when I made the awful gaffe of addressing the surgeon operating on my first night at work as "Dr Kates" rather than the much grander "Mr Kates"

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Kates+A&cauthor_id=6037570

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[Pulcinella]

A colleague of a friend who taught in secondary school, and who had a doctorate (probably in Eng Lit) used to delight in announcing himself to the surgery receptionist on arriving for his doctor's appointment by saying Doctor Smith to see Mister Jones.

Mister Jones could of course have been a consultant (though unlikely to be working at the GP surgery!).

[kernelbogey]

Holders of PhD and other doctorates gained by research/thesis/examination might disagree. Most medical doctors in the UK use the Dr prefix as a courtesy title. A minority have an MD (obtained by additional study/research) as well as the Bachelor of Medicine* primary degree....

A colleague of a friend who taught in secondary school, and who had a doctorate (probably in Eng Lit) used to delight in announcing himself to the surgery receptionist on arriving for his doctor's appointment by saying Doctor Smith to see Mister Jones.

[oddoneout]

I don't disagree, was just sayin'...


...I personally have no axe to grind as I am a mere Batchelor.

As am I ,but I do remember a couple of occasions at school where the fact that my father's title was Dr. caused a bit of confusion when I said no he wasn't a GP...

[Old Grumpy]

... I still think it a bit naff to use such doctorates unless still in academia.

My stepson has PhD in engineering from Imperial, but has left that kind of life and wouldn't dream of using the title ; his wife has a DPhil from Oxford in English Literature and is now an academic at Edinburgh University, her title as Dr **** is part of that world.

I don't disagree, was just sayin'...


...I personally have no axe to grind as I am a mere Batchelor.