more on university names on Language Log

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Sep 13, 2006, at 6:26 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> One more. Maybe it's just me, but it seems that "University of Oxford
> / Cambridge" is replacing the "Oxford / Cambridge University" of my
> youth.

one correspondent, in Cambridge, has suggested that Cambridge
University is moving this way, although CU is entrenched in several
places, for example names of sports teams, even the Cambridge
University Netball Team.

i don't know that these impressions are reliable, though.  finding
out would not be easy.

arnold

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