"Ucla"

[Wilson Gray]

Naturally, I agree with your assumption, Charlie. It's also the case
that the local newspapers in L.A. often refer to UCLA teams as the
"Uclans," based on the "Ucla" spelling, no doubt. I've never heard it
spoken, but I would pronounce it "YOU clans."

-Wilson

On 9/24/06, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> 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."
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> 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.
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> --Charlie
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