"Ucla"

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:15 PM -0400 9/24/06, Wilson Gray wrote:
>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

Yes, I remember that spelling in journalese, and agree that it
wouldn't be pronounced all that often, but I'd have thought the
second vowel was more of a schwa, not as in "YOU clans", but rhyming
with "Kuklans" (followers of Kukla in the wars against Fran and
Ollie, after The Great Schism).

LH (Uclan, '72)

>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.
>>
>>--Charlie
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