I’ve started getting YouTube ads for somebody who identifies themselves with the abbreviation Doc. Dr… I understand the Dr. stands for Doctor but what does the Doc. mean in this context? The ads are very unclear but I think this person is a plastic surgeon. I also believe they may be located in Turkey.
So far as I know it’s just an unofficial abbreviation for doctor. Like a nickname.
Probably docent, an academic rank.
Definitely something Turkish. The “c” isn’t a “c”, but a “c-ish thing with a squiggly bit”.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Doç.%20Dr&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1-m
It’s actually " Doç. Dr." Doç. with the cedilla does mean Doctor in Turkish, but when used together with Dr. it seems to have the connotation of assistant professor. I found a number of plastic sugeons through Google describing themselves that way.
Or it could mean that he has a bad case of loving you.
See, if you hadn’t been searching for that Youtube video you could have beat me to the post.
I was chagrined at first, but then I decided it made a nice topper.
Besides, I had to look up what a squiggly bit was called.
More digging tells me it’s a cedilla in shape but not really in sound. Oxford gives a secondary definition of “a mark similar to a cedilla written under s in Turkish and other languages.” That’s kind of a weird definition since ç is literally the fourth letter of the Turkish alphabet and you’d think it would get its props.
The Turkish ç “represents the voiceless postalveolar affricate /tʃ/ (as in English “church”).” The French ç is by contrast the voiceless alveolar silibant. Neither one would make for a good band name.
I said Doctor (doctor)
Mr. M.D. (doctor)
Can you tell me
what’s ailing me
He said
Evet evet evet evet evet
An old pal of mine, Max Dagobert, MD just went by MD squared.
Now if he’d been a mathametician, he’d’ve gone by (MD)^2.
A search suggests the word is doçent which is cognate with English docent but basically means “associate professor,” e.g. a professor who doesn’t have the time invested to be a full professor but is above an assistant professor (yardımcı doçent) who does not have tenure.
“Doctor, Doctor!
Can’t you hear me wheezing, wheezing?
Oh, Doctor, Doctor
Is this hypoxia I’m feeling?”
Doc Dr = Doctor of Doctory.
I found that in Germany, a title like “Doctor” in multiplied if one has obtained multiple doctorates. So a person would be titled Doctor Doctor.
From Wikipedia: German Honorifics
“Unlike the English-language usage, Doktor may be repeated for double doctorates (Doktor Doktor).”
I was thinking it’s a situation like Major Major Major Major in Catch 22. This person’s title and name is Doctor Doctor.
I once worked with a man whose last name was Doktor. He was not any other kind of doctor. Maybe that’s why he was such a nice guy.
I think you’re right. I was sure I saw “assistant” professor in Google searches, but that seems to appear only as an earlier title for people who are currently “associate” professors.
There are multiple people who go by Dr. Doctor in the U.S., including a family medicine doc in Florida.