{"id":1650,"date":"2014-01-21T22:54:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T22:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2014-01-21T22:54:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T22:54:21","slug":"job-titles-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=1650","title":{"rendered":"Job Titles (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two real job titles from UK universities:<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor<\/p>\n<p>Associate Executive Pro-Vice-Chancellor <\/p>\n<p>The hyphenation is is very variable. One poor sod is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acmedsci.ac.uk\/fellows\/fellows-directory\/ordinary-fellows\/?view=all\">described as an &#8220;Associate Executive Pro-Vice Chancellor&#8221;<\/a>, which is just about the worst possible of the large number of hyphen placements possible between those five words.<\/p>\n<p>I think this reflects the idea that &#8220;pro-vice-chancellor&#8221; is now seen as a single unit concept, not as a deputy-of-a-deputy-of. Indeed, spelling out the phrase is very rare; they are almost invariably referred to as &#8220;PVCs&#8221;, which provides much confusion and amusement outwith the academy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two real job titles from UK universities: Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor Associate Executive Pro-Vice-Chancellor The hyphenation is is very variable. One poor sod is described as an &#8220;Associate Executive Pro-Vice Chancellor&#8221;, which is just about the worst possible of the large number of hyphen placements possible between those five words. I think this reflects the idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[31,32],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1651,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions\/1651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}