USC

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Sep 11, 2006, at 8:17 AM, FRITZ JUENGLING wrote:

> I think I meant OSU= Ohio State University, Oregon State University.
> Just goes to show how little I know about Ohio schools.

there's also Oklahoma State University. all three refer to themselves
as OSU.  for some discussion of the complexity of these abbreviations
and naming schemes, see my second Language Log piece on university
names:

   http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003537.html

arnold

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