Re: In awe of electricians

"Stephen J. Rush" <sjrush@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:5oydnW937MFFblzanZ2dnUVZ_jqdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:55:47 -0800, nospam wrote:

I'm referring to electricians in a general sense: engineers, designers,
contractors, whatever label(s) you wish to slap on it. Degree of
knowledge isn't necessarily proportional to any one of these titles.

There was a time (late eighteenth century) when "electrician" referred to
a scientist working at the frontier of physics. It wasn't long before
the definition changed, in much the same way that the eithteenth
century's "mechanician" became the nineteenth century's "mechanic."

It wasn't until I started looking up definitions that I realized why
anyone might take offense at the term. I'm not sure what's so
different about electronics, e.g. I've never heard of a doctor who
took offense at being called a "physician" instead of something
else. But at any rate no offense was intended to anyone, except
maybe Mr. Terrell who really does sound like a royal ***.


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