Hamantash vs. Latkes (was Dreidle & Latkes (1916))

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 10:24:22PM -0400, Laurence Horn wrote:
> Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> >On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 09:00:07PM -0400, Mark A Mandel wrote:
> >> On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Laurence Horn wrote:
> >>
> >> #>Each year at U of C there are the hamantaschen/latke debates.
> >>
> >> Is that C for California or Chicago? The late, much-missed Jim McCawley
> >> ran something of the sort in Chicago, and wrote a hilarious paper on
> >> them.
> >
> >Chicago! We're trying to ignore our theoretical training and take
> >over the lexicographical world.
> >
> >Chicago is always called "U of C". Isn't Cal called "Cal" or
> >"Berkeley" or "UCLA" or something?
> >
> Um...well...  UC Berkeley is also called UC.  I don't think it's ever
> U of C, but I could be wrong.

Ah, but that's just it--the University of Chicago is always "U of
C" but never "UC". So there's no conflict with Berkeley unless the
latter is ever called "U of C".

Jesse Sheidlower