Monday, 15 May 2017

What's in a Word 4: CV

We had an event at CCBC where colleges, graduate opportunities and summer camp employment groups came to one of our Friday Chapels earlier in the semester and the guy announcing it mentioned people could come and find work for the summer or after CCBC and should bring their resumes.

Now, I know what a resume is, but it's a stupid word...

They don't even put the accent on it, it is literally the word resume (i.e. to begin again).

Anyway, we were talking about resumes after that announcement and I told some of my dormmates that we call them CVs and that it stands for Curriculum Vitae, and that C.V. means 'the course of one's life'.

Well:

American words 0, Ways Irish name things 2.

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