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[Bethany K. Dumas]

>I should check all the Arnold's Language Logs but another puzzler to
>me is how the University of Kansas ends up as "KU" (while the
>University of Kentucky is, more predictably, UK--is it perhaps to
>avoid this very problem?).

For decades, I have known that some people who see my email alias -
dumasb at utk.edu - assume that I am at the University of Kentucky.

Bethany

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