PU

[beth lee simon]

I am at this odd beast written as "IU-PU", which is a combined campus of
Indiana University and Purdue University. The friendly/derisive pronc for
IU-PU is
[ju-i pju-i] (with hyphens indicating syllable boundary). There are two
such campuses. The Indianapolis campus then is [jui pjui jui] and the Fort
Wayne, [ju-i pyu-i fju-i].

What I have also noticed is that the "PU" part varies thusly: [pju-i] ~
[pu-i], with "local" speakers seeming to prefer [pu-i].

I'm sure there is some paper on scatology in the phonology of university
abbreviations, should someone care to ...

beth simon
assitant professor, linguistics and english
indiana university purdue university
simon at ipfw.edu
or
simon at home2.mysolution.com