> There's another fine British/Imperial academic title: Reader. I never quite worked out what it meant. Well, you see, words "lecturer" and "reader" both have

> There's another fine British/Imperial academic title: Reader. I never quite worked out what it meant. Well, you see, words "lecturer" and "reader" both have the same meaning, but the former is a fancy French/Latin word and the latter is a boorish English one, so I'd imagine the difference between the academic titles would be about of the same level.