She is obsessed with "correcting" people on this. Every thread. It absolutely is also called Miami of Ohio. |
I don't know why top PP, added it to the list. Colleges with ambiguous location names, are difficult but not really humorous (add Wash U and Washington College). Insisting on calling it University of Miami, is funny. Calling it Miami of Ohio, is just full disclosure and a conversation starter if need be. |
Explain. I hear people say this, but don't get it. Sinuses are funny? Sounds like urine? I won't defend Uranus, but I don't hear anything with Ursinus. Plus it's Latin, so wigging out like it's unpronounceable, is a yokel move. |
I am part of a Miami Merger and have two kids there and never have I ever called it Miami University. Always Miami of Ohio. |
My friend lives in Ohio and says everyone there calls it Miami of Ohio |
Ripon College |
Oh, c'mon. Kind of a blend of urine and anus. It's for fun; we're not being mature and scholarly here. |
I've always thought "Case Western" university sounds kind of weird. |
^ Actually, it's "Case Western Reserve" which is even weirder.
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Elon University
skidmark/Skidmore University |
They renamed it University of Maryland Global Campus, which doesn’t really roll off the tongue either. |
I had an "experience" with a guy from Elon. Let's just say that will forever be in my head whenever I hear the college name |
They say FUMA (foo-mah). |
And UMGC sounds too similar to UMBC. |
It was a merger of the Western Reserve University and the Case Institute of Technology. Leaders or admin tried to brand the school as just Case, with the WRU part of the name deemphasized, which honestly would have probably been a good idea along with the right branding strategy, but I think alumni reacted poorly and this nomenclature was dropped |