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« Reply #15 on: January 14, 2011, 23:19:53 »
Quote from: bignosemac on January 14, 2011, 23:07:02
Care to give explanations for those post-nominal letters SDS? I hazarding a guess that OG is 'Old Git'  Tongue Wink Grin

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« Reply #16 on: January 14, 2011, 23:30:00 »
In that case may I apologise for the 'Old Git' slight.  Embarrassed Lips sealed Wink Grin

I have (lapsed) membership of AA*. Am I allowed that as a post-nominal? 

*not the motoring organisation.  Grin
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« Reply #17 on: January 14, 2011, 23:58:21 »
Quote from: bignosemac on January 14, 2011, 23:30:00
In that case may I apologise for the 'Old Git' slight.  Embarrassed Lips sealed Wink Grin

I have (lapsed) membership of AA*. Am I allowed that as a post-nominal? 

*not the motoring organisation.  Grin



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« Reply #18 on: January 15, 2011, 00:17:14 »
Quote from: SDS pad on January 14, 2011, 23:58:21
Anoraks Anonymous?

Sounds good. Where do I sign up?  Grin
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« Reply #19 on: January 15, 2011, 06:37:43 »
In which case I'd probably better be entirely honest and say that my post-nominal is DPhil rather than PhD (having gone to one of the small number of institutions which are perverse enough to award doctorates with said non-standard abbreviation, and yes sorry SDS Pad seeing as you're a Cambridge man it was the "other place" Wink). Apart from my undergrad degree I think I can also claim OB, despite being neither O, nor particularly B.

Not to mention GCSE as well. And my esteemed friends and colleagues in the murky world of railway preservation could no doubt provide a few others... Grin
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« Reply #20 on: January 15, 2011, 08:15:26 »
I thought that Cambridge did something weird about only awarding BA» (British Airways - about) degrees, even to scientists?
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« Reply #21 on: January 15, 2011, 10:45:15 »
yeah they do - and you get the masters a year after graduating for doing nothing

Maths, of course, should always be a BA» (British Airways - about)
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« Reply #22 on: January 15, 2011, 11:11:12 »
Hmmn, Readytostart XC▸ (Cross Country Trains (franchise)), beats all of your BAs» (British Airways - about) and MScs, at least in Scrabble (before you get pedantic I bagsee the triple letter score).
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« Reply #23 on: January 15, 2011, 12:49:58 »
Quote from: Mookiemoo on January 15, 2011, 10:45:15
and you get the masters a year after graduating for doing nothing
But their courses are usually a year longer (4 years) so effectively an undergraduate masters anyway.
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