[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: June's OT Board Dictionary Launched (was Brittspeak)

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

At 2:51 PM -0400 10/23/03, eloiseherisson at aol.com wrote:
>
>Prawn = shrimp

This is extremely pedantic usage, but here a prawn and a shrimp are 
two different things.  A shrimp does not have claws; a prawn is 
larger and does.

>Now, while we're here, can someone please explain all those names you
>Americans have for different years in school and University?


At 7:37 PM +0000 10/23/03, Jen Reese wrote:
>Then we have 4-year Colleges and Universities, but I can't remember
>the distinction between the two--Is a College one where you can only
>get a 4-year degree; and a University one where you can also get
>Graduate degrees?

Yes, that's correct.  We also have "Institutes," which only issue 
bachelor's degrees in certain areas, such as an engineering institute 
or an education institute.  There are a dying breed these days, 
though.

>(And just to make this entirely confusing, Universities often
>have "Colleges" within their setting for each particular field of
>study, i.e., College of Natural Scineces, College of Liberal Arts).

In addition, some universities, especially those that are very old or 
deliberately modeled on those that are, have "residential colleges" 
instead of dorms; they differ in that a few members of the faculty 
also live there, in apartments maintained by the university, and that 
the everning meal is generally served "family-style," with dishes of 
food placed on the table and everyone serving themselves from them, 
rather than cafeteria-style.

Rice University has both academic colleges and residential colleges 
within the university, which can get quite confusing.  ;)

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