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Author Topic: academe or academia?  (Read 4209 times)
cranefly
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« Reply #15 on: February 19, 2009, 10:48:24 AM »
Anybody understand the "academician" thing?
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Quote from: larryc on May 20, 2012, 07:53:27 PM
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« Reply #16 on: February 19, 2009, 10:52:33 AM »
Quote from: cranefly on February 19, 2009, 10:48:24 AM
Anybody understand the "academician" thing?

Surprisingly, the OED blames this one on none other than Benjamin Franklin (1748) and claims that it took the place of "academist" (fl. 17th-18th centuries).

My favorite sentence from the etymology entry (Lyell 1830):  "The Academicians described derangements in some of the buildings of Calabria."

I bet they did, too.
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Quote from: goldentringle on May 25, 2012, 12:37:42 AM
i think is good for every one only the think is that we will always scares about that.
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« Reply #17 on: February 12, 2012, 01:20:06 PM »
OEM puts the origin of academe in the late 16th century, but the synonym academia in the 1950s. Webster's New International Dictionary, 2d (perhaps the last great, unabridged, proscriptive as opposed to descriptive dictionary) doesn't even have an entry for academia. chronicle.com seems to use academe, not academia. Thanks to the prompting from this thread, my choice henceforth will be academe.
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« Reply #18 on: February 12, 2012, 10:51:25 PM »
I always thought it was "macarena."
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« Reply #19 on: February 12, 2012, 10:57:59 PM »
Quote from: galactic_hedgehog on February 12, 2012, 10:51:25 PM
I always thought it was "macarena."

It isn't?
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