USC

[Charles Doyle]

And the state of Pennsylvania has both a California University and an Indiana University.

--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:20:36 -0700
>From: "Arnold M. Zwicky" <zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU>
>Subject: Re: USC
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU

>
>On Sep 11, 2006, at 10:00 AM, Alison Murie wrote:
>
>> Then there's Miami University, another source of confusion among
>> Ohio schools.
>
>oh my, yes.  the names of american (and canadian) institutions of
>higher education are endlessly baffling to foreigners.
>
>Miami University is in Oxford, Ohio (the University of Mississippi,
>or Ole Miss, is in Oxford, Mississippi; as far as i can tell, there
>is, thank god, no Oxford University or University of Oxford in the
>u.s. or canada), on the Miami River.
>
>Miami University and Ohio University both predate OSU by some years.
>indeed, both expected to be picked as ohio's land-grant university
>and were apparently mightily pissed off when a brand-new school was
>created for this purpose in columbus.
>
>arnold

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