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general director

Postby Hung Tao » Fri Sep 10, 2004 3:04 pm

Please tell me which of following phrases is correct:
1)general director, general secretary
2)director general, secretary general
Thanks a lot.
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Re: general director

Postby Josef » Wed Sep 15, 2004 7:42 pm

Hung Tao wrote:Please tell me which of following phrases is correct:
1) general director, general secretary
2) director general, secretary general


The usual, commonly-known titles are as in 2.

However, the phrases in 1 would be perfectly possible in some circumstances.
"We are not wholly bad or good, who live our lives under Milk Wood"
prayer of the Reverend Eli Jenkins in Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
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