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Originally Posted by Alawen
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Out of curiosity, I checked OED for etymology on the word professional. It entered the English language in rare usage from the Latin profiteor by way of French in the 15th century, at which point it was particular to a religious calling. The current usage of professional as one who makes a profession or business of any occupation appeared in the OED in 1811.
I suppose now we'll have to have an argument about what archaic means.
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No offense to oxford, but like I said, I'll let professionals decide what a profession is. That's the expertism part of being a professional - we get to define jargon.
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