Dumb school nicknames, nonsensical acronyms, and confusion

[Anonymous]

What is the deal with the dumb nicknames for some schools? Is it really that difficult to just write out Vanderbilt? What's the deal with Mizzou? For the longest time I didn't know what UVM was and finally Googled it. “UVM” stands for the Latin words Universitas Viridis Montis -- University of the Green Mountains. Not very intuitive. And as far as I'm concerned, USC is the obnoxious private school in Los Angeles, not a Southern school.

[Anonymous]

CU Boulder. Please help me understand that!

[Anonymous]

Yeah, I agree. My kid was upset that someone mistook us University of Southern California shirt for South Carolina. Oh well!

[Anonymous]

University of Ver Mont?

[Anonymous]

Ole Miss is the absolute worst.

[Anonymous]

It is posts like this that make it 100 percent clear that most of DCUM posts are not written by moms but by teenage boys.

[Anonymous]

Miami of Ohio

California University of Pennsylvania

Indiana University of Pennsylvania

And good for the Missouri directional schools - finally changed all or some of the NE/SW/SE MO State Universities to Truman State University, for example.

[Anonymous]

Northeastern students and families who say its NU, when NU is really Northwestern.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Northeastern students and families who say its NU, when NU is really Northwestern.

NO
www.nu.edu

Sorry NU is National University

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Northeastern students and families who say its NU, when NU is really Northwestern.

NO
www.nu.edu

Sorry NU is National University

Ah yes the acclaimed school that’s younger than I am and has a 12% graduation rate. How could I forget that! How very silly of me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I agree. My kid was upset that someone mistook us University of Southern California shirt for South Carolina. Oh well!

the person was stupid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Miami of Ohio

California University of Pennsylvania

Indiana University of Pennsylvania

And good for the Missouri directional schools - finally changed all or some of the NE/SW/SE MO State Universities to Truman State University, for example.

Miami Indians were in Ohio. It makes sense. No Miami Indians in Florida. Those were the Mayaimi native Americans.

[Anonymous]

Midwestern universities that are all like: U of I, or I U , or I of U, or Iowa I, or Uawa I. I have no clue. Random combinations of Is and Us and other vowels . And then the Northern and Southern and Western and Eastern U of Is and Is of Us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:University of Ver Mont?

Yeah this one's pretty straightforward. Interesting to see the Latin lines up, though!