{"id":15861,"date":"2015-12-09T01:51:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T00:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=15861"},"modified":"2015-12-09T01:51:50","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T00:51:50","slug":"a-note-on-the-apostrophe-that-is-not-in-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2015\/12\/09\/a-note-on-the-apostrophe-that-is-not-in-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"A note on the apostrophe that is not in &#8220;Master&#8217;s&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quick note on the increasing tendency to wrongly use &#8220;Master&#8217;s degree&#8221;, instead of &#8220;Masters degree&#8221;, when referring to the Masters degree (the degree <em>of<\/em> the masters, not the degree of <em>a<\/em> master). Tonight I spotted &#8220;Master&#8217;s&#8221; occurring throughout the government consultation document on UK postgraduate loans. Open access to old books makes past usage into a sound and easily consulted guide, for those disinclined to open a dictionary.  60 seconds with Google Books, for instance, shows&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; &#8230; as in the case of a Masters degree&#8221; (<em>Oxford University Calendar<\/em>, 1850).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;the Masters degree to begin &#8230;&#8221; (<em>The American Journal of Education<\/em>, 1873).<\/p>\n<p><em>A Study of All Masters Degree Graduates of The New York School of Social Work<\/em> (1954).<\/p>\n<p><em>Standards for Professional Masters Degree Programs<\/em> (National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration, 1988).<\/p>\n<p><em>The Masters Degree by Coursework<\/em> (Australian Government Public Service, 1995).<\/p>\n<p><em>Distance Education and the Masters Degree in Canada<\/em> (University of Alberta, 1998).<\/p>\n<p>One can also refer to a collection of &#8220;Masters&#8217; theses&#8221; in America, it seems, though here in the UK I&#8217;ve only ever known of &#8220;Masters&#8217; dissertations&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick note on the increasing tendency to wrongly use &#8220;Master&#8217;s degree&#8221;, instead of &#8220;Masters degree&#8221;, when referring to the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2015\/12\/09\/a-note-on-the-apostrophe-that-is-not-in-masters\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ooops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}