College nicknames
Amy Z
aiz24 at hotmail.com
Wed Oct 24 23:00:01 UTC 2001
Joywitch wrote:
> (Here in the US we almost always refer to schools by "particular"
> nicknames. For example, the University of California is always
> called UCLA, but the University of California at Berkeley is NEVER
> called UCB -- for some reason it's always refered to as "Cal.")
Color me clueless. I always call it just plain Berkeley. I guess in
college football, it's Cal.
You do need to know these things--logic means nothing. The University
of Vermont is UVM even though the state abbreviation is VT; the
University of Washington (NOT to be confused with Washington
University or George Washington University) is "U-dub"; there are
a zillion University of Wisconsin-s but the only one that gets
called that is the one at Madison; etc.
Amy
who finds this kind of stuff fascinating
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