Date:  Sun, 19 Mar 1995 10:23:49 -0800

From:  Anton Sherwood <dasher[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]NETCOM.COM>

Subject: apposite -s



Michael Montgomery <N270053[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UNIVSCVM.CSD.SCAROLINA.EDU> writes:

> . . . . My university has for some time had an _Athletics

> Director_, presumably since the Sports Information Office or the school's

> Office of Media Relations has decided that this represents the proper

> derivation from _Director of Athletics_. It has become the only term

> used in university publicity and in the local newspaper, although so far

> as I can tell, only a written form (one hears only _Athletic Director_).

> I haven't tried to track this down hereabouts, but probably should. Has

> the same -s been cropping up on other campuses? . . .



All I can say is that my dad was never a "physic professor"!

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