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No, Helen. Medical doctors are called Doctor, but surgeons are called Mister. Dates back to the days when surgery was a side-job for barbers but now has become a piece of oneupmanship. A surgeon would be quite miffed if somebody downgraded him by calling him Doctor.
I'm not sure of the exact details, but I think the nursing positions in a hospital used to be nurse, sister (in charge of the nurses in a ward) and matron (chief nurse for the whole hospital).
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What about janitor? Janitors do many of the same jobs as housekeeping staff, only normally they don't do beds. I suspect they make more than housekeeping staff as well.
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Over here, the janitor is called the "caretaker" - but this is only for public buildings or blocks of flats (apartments to you USns)
In the (good?) old days, men-servants in big houses were NOT called upon to clean and sweep the rooms. Cleaning boots and the cutlery was the job of a boy, part of his training in domestic srvice, from which lowly position he might seek to rise to footman then valet or butler
However, in these modern times there are plenty of cases over here where men do household cleaning, both in the domestic sphere - especially as contract cleaners - and in the hotel trade. They are still very much in the minority, but.
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men do household cleaning, both in the domestic sphere - especially as contract cleaners - and in the hotel trade.
Whoa--I am so glad to know that! Thank you. Possibly there are some here in the U.S., then, too. There is hope yet! <eg>
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>both sexes would be referred to as housekeepers
..or domatologists. <g>
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That acknowledged, I have a question:
How do y'all "feel" the difference between the words caretaker and caregiver?
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I don't get tsuwm's pun, Missus Asp. Domatologist appears to be bona fide--in two online dictionaries. (But if you know Macedonian, a domat is a tomato, and I suppose a domatologist could be a botanist who specializes in tomatoes if you're being facetious. That doesn't have anything to do with tsuwm or puns or housekeeping.)
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Like RhubarbCommando said, a caretaker looks after and does maintenance on a school or block of flats, a caregiver looks after kids or those unable to look after themselves for whatever reason.
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Wot Bingley said. Odd, though, that a person who takes care of another is not a caretaker. It also ought to mean someone who is careful, but it doesn't.
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>Domatologist appears to be bona fide--in two online dictionaries.
which borrowed it from Mrs. B! (which, as we know, doesn't say squat about its bona fides.)
that said, domus is Latin for house; domatophobia is fear of being confined in a house..
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