...about this language that we profess to love.



If a professional professes something, what does an amateur do to the same something? [/quote]

I remember getting terribly confused when I first started reading Pilgrim's Progress by Bunyan's use of the word professor to mean not a teacher but one who professes (i.e., gives only lip service) so that his scorn was directed at hypocrites rather than academia.



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