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Greg Thank you so much! I now fully understand about Dr. I had seen in my dictionary that there were other ways of saying Doctor including one where the Dr was non medical. Regarding the syntax I can now understand this also - I thought it was the other way around. I will now use the correct way when writing or speaking AND I must get the tonos correct!!! Thanks again Gordon |
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re: "I had seen in my dictionary that there were other ways of saying Doctor including one where the Dr was non medical." You may hear or see a distinction made in colloquial usage such that δόκτωρ (demotic δόκτορας) refers solely to an M.D.(physician), while the word διδάκτωρ (demotic διδάκτορας) refers to a Ph.D. In this usage, δρ is the abbreviation for both δόκτωρ and διδάκτωρ. Regards, Greg Brush |
