In message , at 10:58:57 on Mon, 30 Nov
2015, d remarked:

Much of the research is done by heart surgeons (or whoever) pioneering
new treatments in the operating theatre.

Well obviously someone has to actually do a new treatment eventually. That
doesn't mean they're any better than the next guy.

The ones who pioneer (aka research) the new treatments are generally
more skilled than those merely following in their footsteps.

Not necessarily - they're simply the ones who had the idea.

Then the person with the high skills is the one who did the pioneering
operations and turned the idea into something which could be rolled out
as a standard technique.

--
Roland Perry

On Fri, 4 Dec 2015 03:36:30 +0000, "Clive D. W. Feather"
wrote:

In message , Neil Williams
wrote:
(I realise, definitely with an S rather than a Z, that there is a US
cross-post on this thread, though)

The OED actually prefers the Z spellings, as they derive from a Greek
form with a zeta in it ("izon", IIRC). The S spellings are something
else to blame on the French.

:-)

On Sat, 05 Dec 2015 15:03:36 +0000, e27002 aurora
wrote:

On Fri, 4 Dec 2015 03:36:30 +0000, "Clive D. W. Feather"
wrote:

In message , Neil Williams
wrote:
(I realise, definitely with an S rather than a Z, that there is a US
cross-post on this thread, though)

The OED actually prefers the Z spellings, as they derive from a Greek
form with a zeta in it ("izon", IIRC). The S spellings are something
else to blame on the French.

:-)