Klarinet Archive - Posting 000227.txt from 2005/11

From: "Rien Stein" <rstein@-----.nl>
Subj: Re: [kl] master class - AND the Use of English
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:55:57 -0500

"auditor: ...An auditor is an accountant who officially examines the
accounts of organisations" (Collins Cobuild English dictionary).

"auditor:a person who officially examinesthe accounts of a company, etc; a
personwho performs an audit" (Oxford dvanced learner's dictionary).

But the best English-Dutch dictionary, Van Dake's dwoordenboek, gives as the
first meaning of auditor: "listener"! And this both in the sense of someone
listening to a radio program, a concertoe etc, and someone attending a
lecture etc. And only after that it gives the above given meaning.

Rien

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