Another tidbit--
My dictionary sites 'docent' as being used only in American English. This
term is not used in (or at least did not originate from) the Queen's
English.
At 11:11 AM -0700 8/17/01, you wrote:
>The term was used first in Boston: "In 1907, Benjamin Ives Gilman
>introduced volunteer guides called "docents" to the Boston Museum of Fine
>Arts, to be used for the "purposeful instruction of visitors."
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