USC

[Matthew Gordon]

add Missouri to that list: always MU not UM


On 9/11/06 1:34 PM, "Arnold M. Zwicky" <zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU> wrote:

> On Sep 11, 2006, at 11:25 AM, Larry Horn wrote:
>
>>> Ohio University, of course!  Funny--I used to be at the
>>> "University of
>>> Indiana," and now I'm at the "University of Ohio."    I can't win.
>>>
>>> Beverly Flanigan
>>> Ohio University-Athens
>>
>> I should check all the Arnold's Language Logs but another puzzler to
>> me is how the University of Kansas ends up as "KU"...
>
> the Universities of Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma all show this
> reversal.  it's in my second posting ("University name bulletins").
>
> arnold
>
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