USC

[Charles Doyle]

I'd call "SC" for 'The University of Southern California' an LA'ism, and "USC" perhaps a Westernism.  When I moved from (that) USC to The University of Georgia in 1974, I discovered that "USC" now meant 'The University of South Carolina'--while The University of Southern California is known in the South (and elsewhere?--but not in California?) as "Southern Cal."

--Charlie

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