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[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Sep 11, 2006, at 10:46 AM, Charlie Doyle wrote:

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

known, very carefully, as California University of Pennsylvania and
Indiana University of Pennsylvania.  these came up in my first
Language Log posting on university names:

    http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003533.html

(there have been four so far.  at least one more is in preparation.
if i'd known how this was going to go, i might not have posted the
first one.)

arnold

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