USC

[Matthew Gordon]

Yes, only the Columbia campus is referred to as MU. We use UM (by itself) to
refer to the University of Missouri system, which has its own
administration, and the UM order is used when specifying one of the 4
campuses: UMSL, UMKC, UMR(olla), UMC(olumbia).

I think Nebraska is similar. It's definitely not UN. Some people refer to it
as NU but for me UNL is the more natural spoken form. Then again, I'm a
townie not a gownie as far as Nebraska's concerned.


On 9/11/06 2:18 PM, "Beverly Flanigan" <flanigan at OHIO.EDU> wrote:

> 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:
>>
>>> 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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