"Ucla"

[Charles Doyle]

Yesterday, watching the football games on TV, I noticed that the UCLA team's helmets show the initialism written as if it's an acronym: "Ucla"--upper case "U" followed by lower-case "cla," all in neat cursive script with an underscore flowing leftward from the "a."

Nonetheless, the school (or team) is never referred to (except jocularly) as /@kl@/ or /jukl@/, is it?  Much less shortened to /kl@/??  I assume the helmet logo is merely a bit of visual wit.

--Charlie

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