Re: Labov's latest discovery in sociolinguistics

Is "Ph.D." protected? And what about "Dr." in the US?
What does "protected" mean? Of course there's no such thing as
"protected."
There's no "of course" about it. In some jurisdictions, some similar
designations are indeed protected by law: e.g. it's a criminal offence
in the UK to claim to be a "chartered xxx" where "xxx" might be
"engineer", "accountant" etc. unless that title has been awarded by a
professional body holding a Royal Charter..
Sorry, but what does that have to do with "in the US"?
In Ireland, "Royal" adds great prestige to a name. In the US it
doesn't. (And "chartered" doesn't exist -- perhaps the equivalent is
"licensed." "Licensed" is not a name or part of a name.)

The US uses the word "certified" instead, with people like Bill Gates
instead of a nominal royal source of authority.

What happens to people who falsely claim to be Microsoft certified
engineers?

==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === <http://www.campin.me.uk> ====
Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557
CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts
.

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