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Re:Glowing mercury thyratrons: inside a 1940s Teletype switc... by tingletech on Monday September 10, 2018 @03:20PM (#17954325)
what other word is used for the volunteers who interact with patrons at a museum?
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Re:Glowing mercury thyratrons: inside a 1940s Teletype switc... by testvox on Monday September 10, 2018 @03:30PM (#17954416)
> The title "docent" is not widely used outside the United States, with the terms "guide", "facilitator", or "educator" preferred.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_docent

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Re:Glowing mercury thyratrons: inside a 1940s Teletype switc... by sannee on Monday September 10, 2018 @04:11PM (#17954795)
Interestingly, the same word is used at some european universities to mean roughly "associate professor".
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Re:Glowing mercury thyratrons: inside a 1940s Teletype switc... by ddingus on Monday September 10, 2018 @03:55PM (#17954645)
Nailed it.

It is not all that widely used in the US either, in my experience anyway.

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