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> So, since the subject has come up and I've been dying to ask - if  
> you call
> and "exhibition" an "exhibit", what do you call an "exhibit" to avoid
> confusion?

We would prefer that each go by its own, individual name, please.
Generalities are so ... academic.



On Jun 23, 2007, at 10:26 PM, Regan Forrest wrote:

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> <<<< I keep thinking about a museum director
> for whom I once worked who insisted on calling groups of exhibits
> "exhibitions."  Exhibitions are made up of "exhibits."  And she'd get
> stubborn if staff would slip and refer to a group of exhibits as, an
> "exhibit."  >>>
>
> Was this Director non-American by any chance?
>
> I think you'll find that outside the US, this terminology is the  
> common
> parlance - I used to find myself getting confused when Americans  
> referred to
> an "exhibit", until it dawned on me that they were really talking  
> about an
> "exhibition". Even now that I know, it can still make me do a  
> double-take.
>
>
> Best,
>
> Regan Forrest
> Museums Consultant
> Adelaide, Australia
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