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M entor - somebody, usually older and more experienced, who advises and guides a younger, less experienced person ( Encarta Dictionary ). Recently, I’ve been noticing an increase in what I would call a misuse of the work mentor . I first noticed this when I our church was going into John C. Maxwell’s Injoy program (which I now consider to be a huge waste of money). I think he may have backed away from this wording some now, but I saw wording that stated that John C. Maxwell had mentored thousands or millions or whatever it was. My first thought was, Wow! How does he have time? and then came to realize that they were talking about how many people had bought his tapes. In my book, that isn’t mentoring at all. More recently, I’ve noticed people in the publishing industry using the verb mentor as a pseudonym for edit . I was on Rachelle Gardner’s website the other day and saw a list of freelance editors. I was curious to see what they were charging for editing a manuscript. I clicked ...