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[Beverly Flanigan]

But it's officially the University of Missouri, right?  I recall the U of
Mo in St. Louis from years ago, initialized as UMSL.  Is it only the
Columbia campus that's called MU?  Indiana, of course, is NOT the
University of Indiana, nor is OU the U of Ohio.

At 02:57 PM 9/11/2006, you wrote:
>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:
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> > 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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