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#1 2006-07-08 17:38:43

klakritz
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From: Winchester Massachusetts
Registered: 2005-10-25
Posts: 674

'a meritus professor' for 'emeritus professor'

Rare. I found only these:

Paul Martin, a Meritus Professor of Geosciences at the University of Arizona and leading expert on the theory …
www.bfro.net/GDB/show_article.asp?id=263

That’s certainly the view confirmed by Garth Nettheim, a meritus Professor of Law at the Indigenous Law Centre at the University of New South Wales.
www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/stories/s152070.htm

I’m Tom Ferguson from Washington University in St. Louis, a Meritus Professor of Surgery there, and I’m a consultant to the Panel.
www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/03/transcr … ession.htm

He is a meritus professor at the University of Ibidan in Nigeria.
www.dac.gov.za/about_us/cd_nat_language … indaba.htm

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#2 2006-07-11 22:47:13

waawa
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Registered: 2006-07-11
Posts: 2

Re: 'a meritus professor' for 'emeritus professor'

Also “A meritous professor”.

http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/stories/s142811.htm
“Neville Quarry, a meritous Professor at Sydney’s University of Technology,”

http://www.iddv.com/events/tatestives.htm
“joined by Richard Gregory (a meritous professor of neuro psychology at University of Bristol)”

Googling confirms that both are emeritus professors.

Lara

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#3 2006-07-12 04:17:04

patschwieterman
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From: California
Registered: 2005-10-25
Posts: 1680

Re: 'a meritus professor' for 'emeritus professor'

Are the writers confusing “meritous” with “meritorious”? If so, that makes the whole thing more eggcornish, but it more or less erases the implication that the professor has retired.

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