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Yes-- Flatlander-- i alway like the trouble out of towner have with SUNY and CUNY (Sue -knee and Coo -knee) the State Universiy and the City University systems in NY..
out west it's all UCLA, or UCSC, here its "Stony Brook, SUNY, and SUNY Bingington..with the SUNY moving positions, even though it should be SUNY first (state university of n y at ....) and in NY, CUNY exist, as a system, but no one "goes" to CUNY-- they always just name the college. (I go to John Jay, or I'm at Leman )
Sparteye-- how is done in Michigan-- Is Anne Arbor more important (vs Kalamazoo?) or is MSU-- (as in MSU at anne arbor... ?
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I've also noticed that in the US, the abbreviations leave out the "of" whereas we leave them in (for the most part): U of M (Manitoba) not UM, U of T (Toronto) not UT, U of A (Alberta) not UA, etc. Rarely just letters (although there are a few - UBC, and my school, MUN). Sometimes the name is chopped off and "university" left out so you have Dal for Dalhousie, Mac for MacMaster, etc.
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they played UConn … a basketball team from the Yukon
Of course the confusion is all cleared up when it is revealed that the team nickname of the University of Connecticut is the Huskies
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Sparteye-- how is done in Michigan-- Is Anne Arbor more important (vs Kalamazoo?) or is MSU-- (as in MSU at anne arbor... ?
Ack!!! Blech!!!! Never shall the hallowed and beautious Michigan State sully itself through location in [I shutter as I type this] Ann Arbor.
There is no overarching "Michigan University system." Several state universities in Michigan are created in the Michigan Constitution and have independently elected governing boards. Both Michigan State, located in East Lansing, and Michigan, located in Ann Arbor, are such universities. The main - and until very recently, only - campuses are in EL and AA, respectively. Any other embodiments, like Michigan's Dearborn campus, are barely acknowledged outside their immediate area, and so when someone refers to Michigan State or Michigan, only the EL or AA campus is understood.
Other division I schools in Michigan are: Western Michigan (WMU), Eastern Michigan (EMU), Central Michigan (CMU), [we're consistent, if not creative] Oakland, and Detroit (UD). There are many others, but they don't count because they don't play division I basketball.
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So Terror is the thought that Of troy might refer to your university
Horror is when she has actual done it...
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Speaking of Canadian schools, I love the abbreviated name of one of the Universities in Montreal -- UQAM, pronounced as a word: OO-kwam.
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So Terror is the thought that Of troy might refer to your university
Horror is when she has actual done it...
More accurately, terror is the threat that someone will mistakenly think that Michigan State is in Ann Arbor. Horror is the realization that someone thinks Ohio State is in Ann Arbor.
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Yale is "Eli" also "Yalie" They all have nicknames except Harvard which is always Harvard and everybody thinks it's in Boston when actually it's in Cambridge and the Stadium is in the next town !! Just wondering : University of Oxford called OU ?
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Okay, you-all, I put it the way I did, mainly as a private joke to someone, who did get it, but also as a mild tweak to see if anyone would get properly outraged. And it worked, she noted! No, we never say the UK, though we do say the University of Kentucky. Interestingly, the University of Louisville is never UL,
except in logos; spoken, it is always U of L.
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[green}Just wondering : University of Oxford called OU ? [/green}
It certainly is! And never ever called University of Oxford - always Oxford University.
Cambridge University follows the same format, (so does Durham, I think.) The other venerable and venerated Institution in the UK is that great Scottish Uni, the University of St. Andrews: trust the Scots to do it differently!
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