Universities where the Abbreviation Doesn't Match the Name

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don’t like UGA, then you don’t like UVA either.

UVM bugs me — if using first letters, it should be UV, if using state abbreviations it should be UVT, but I guess they wanted to use syllables and come up with UVM.

UVM is based on the Latin for University of the Green Mountains, Universitas Viridis Montis

This is cool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don’t like UGA, then you don’t like UVA either.

UVM bugs me — if using first letters, it should be UV, if using state abbreviations it should be UVT, but I guess they wanted to use syllables and come up with UVM.

people here use VT for Virginia Tech which is state abbreviation Vermont

Postal codes are not the same as abbreviations. One could say the abbreviation for Virginia Tech is Va. Tech.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don’t like UGA, then you don’t like UVA either.

UVM bugs me — if using first letters, it should be UV, if using state abbreviations it should be UVT, but I guess they wanted to use syllables and come up with UVM.

If you don’t like UGA then you also don’t like UMD.

Or UMN

Although to be fair, there are so many M states that using the state abbreviations instead of just M is much better.

[Anonymous]

Isn't Virginia Tech also VPI somehow?

[Anonymous]

Penn for PSU 😂

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn't Virginia Tech also VPI somehow?

The full name is Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, so there’s an argument for VPI or VPISU, but no. Call it that and no one will know what you mean.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Army-Navy

Army has theee options - it's the United States Miltary Academy (USMA), which is located in West Point, so often called West Point. Or just Army.

Navy is the United States Naval Academy - USNA, or just Navy.

Some people also refer to Navy as Annapolis, but typically that's limited to people in the Navy/military. As in "I went to Annapolis".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don’t like UGA, then you don’t like UVA either.

UVM bugs me — if using first letters, it should be UV, if using state abbreviations it should be UVT, but I guess they wanted to use syllables and come up with UVM.

If you don’t like UGA then you also don’t like UMD.

Or UMN

Although to be fair, there are so many M states that using the state abbreviations instead of just M is much better.

Except for Michigan, who uses UM or UofM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don’t like UGA, then you don’t like UVA either.

UVM bugs me — if using first letters, it should be UV, if using state abbreviations it should be UVT, but I guess they wanted to use syllables and come up with UVM.

people here use VT for Virginia Tech which is state abbreviation Vermont

Postal codes are not the same as abbreviations. One could say the abbreviation for Virginia Tech is Va. Tech.

UConn, UMass, UDel, and Ole Miss use the old-style postal codes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don’t like UGA, then you don’t like UVA either.

UVM bugs me — if using first letters, it should be UV, if using state abbreviations it should be UVT, but I guess they wanted to use syllables and come up with UVM.

If you don’t like UGA then you also don’t like UMD.

Or UMN

Although to be fair, there are so many M states that using the state abbreviations instead of just M is much better.

Except for Michigan, who uses UM or UofM.

In Massachusetts everyone refers to the state school as UMass (often with the city attached, e.g. Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth). Less confusing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don’t like UGA, then you don’t like UVA either.

UVM bugs me — if using first letters, it should be UV, if using state abbreviations it should be UVT, but I guess they wanted to use syllables and come up with UVM.

UVM is based on the Latin for University of the Green Mountains, Universitas Viridis Montis

This is cool.

Vermont actually comes from French, like a PP stated: les verts monts

[Anonymous]

University of Miami is somehow just The U.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don’t like UGA, then you don’t like UVA either.

UVM bugs me — if using first letters, it should be UV, if using state abbreviations it should be UVT, but I guess they wanted to use syllables and come up with UVM.

people here use VT for Virginia Tech which is state abbreviation Vermont

Not to mention the official name is Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Should be VPISU lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don’t like UGA, then you don’t like UVA either.

UVM bugs me — if using first letters, it should be UV, if using state abbreviations it should be UVT, but I guess they wanted to use syllables and come up with UVM.

people here use VT for Virginia Tech which is state abbreviation Vermont

Postal codes are not the same as abbreviations. One could say the abbreviation for Virginia Tech is Va. Tech.

UConn, UMass, UDel, and Ole Miss use the old-style postal codes.

We always called it UD when I was there not UDel.

[Anonymous]

Fordham’s abbreviation is good.