UC whatever

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

In a message dated 8/9/2002 6:15:47 PM, c64 at CATS.UCSC.EDU writes:

<< University of California at Berkeley is called Cal - certainly
locally.  University of California at Los Angeles is UCLA.  The
others are mostly UC whatever, i.e., UC Davis, UC Irvine, etc.

Rima

I attend school at UC Santa Cruz, UCSC (with a heavily sibilant s as
most pronounce it, U C esss C) or "Uncle Charlie's Summer Camp"
-Tony >>

The University of Iowa is called "Iowa" and Iowa State University is called
"Iowa State." In Iowa, Purdue University is known as "P.U.," and so is the
University of Minnesota, against whom their football team plays a game every
year and the winner gets a statue of a pig. Around North Carolina, Duke
Univeristy is called "Duke." The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
is called "Carolina" in North Carolina. The University of South Carolina is
called "Carolina" in South Carolina. This sometimes causes confusion among
people who don't know their Cocks from their Tar Heels. Less well-known I'm
sure: where I grew up, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Coe College was called "Coe."
The state university in Bamberg, Germany, is called "Universität Bamberg."
The <ä> is pronunced like the <e> in English BET. I could go on and on, but
I'll stop there for now.