more on university names on Language Log

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu Sep 14 01:26:28 UTC 2006


One more. Maybe it's just me, but it seems that "University of Oxford
/ Cambridge" is replacing the "Oxford / Cambridge University" of my
youth.

-Wilson

On 9/13/06, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:
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