Thursday 29 March 2012

Devil's Dictionary

(This entry is a coursework task for Week 11 of the CertICT course run by The Consultants-E).  Course participants must define a job title according to two dictionaries, one serious and one satirical.  In the comments section, other participants will then guess what job has been described.


The Merriam-Webster definition of my word is a practitioner of "a system of medical practice that treats a disease especially by the administration of minute doses of a remedy that would in larger amounts produce in healthy persons symptoms similar to those of the disease" - easy! 

The Devil's Dictionary definition is "The humorist of the medical profession."

 Guess who!

4 comments:

  1. homeopath, but then I cheated. I would never have got this from the definitions. I used to do cryptic crosswords but I find these days that German had deleted a lot of those daft links that you need to do this kind of thing.

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  2. Alison, you beat me to it!

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  3. Cheats don't win... the honours are all yours Will

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