funny college names

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College of William and Mary is kind of odd if you're not from around here.

Imagine going to the College of Greg and Marcia.

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Anonymous wrote:College of William and Mary is kind of odd if you're not from around here.

Imagine going to the College of Greg and Marcia.

If you have any knowledge of English history it isn't weird at all

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Anonymous wrote:College of William and Mary is kind of odd if you're not from around here.

Imagine going to the College of Greg and Marcia.

If you have any knowledge of English history it isn't weird at all

Sure. I have a history degree and studied this period, but my family abroad are deeply confused by the name, and I had to give them a mini-history lecture. They're used to university names reflecting a city or region like University of Melbourne or University of Queensland.

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Anonymous wrote:Salve Regina in Newport RI. Sounds too overtly catholic/italian. Also nicknamed "sloppy v*gina"

It's a school with potential, with one of the most beautiful college campuses, in the great location of newport RI. But this school needs to change its name

Say this about another religion or group of people and it would be overtly racist...pathetic.

Yep.

Yeah how about Yeshiva University “sounds too —-y!”

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Anonymous wrote:College of William and Mary is kind of odd if you're not from around here.

Imagine going to the College of Greg and Marcia.

If you have any knowledge of English history it isn't weird at all

Sure. I have a history degree and studied this period, but my family abroad are deeply confused by the name, and I had to give them a mini-history lecture. They're used to university names reflecting a city or region like University of Melbourne or University of Queensland.

People from a commonwealth country should understand well.

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Anonymous wrote:Colgate (I think of toothpaste).
Purdue (I think of chicken).

Add Tufts to that. I can say that all day. It’s fun to say.

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Brown University was originally "College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations"

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:College of William and Mary is kind of odd if you're not from around here.

Imagine going to the College of Greg and Marcia.

If you have any knowledge of English history it isn't weird at all

Sure. I have a history degree and studied this period, but my family abroad are deeply confused by the name, and I had to give them a mini-history lecture. They're used to university names reflecting a city or region like University of Melbourne or University of Queensland.

People from a commonwealth country should understand well.

Not necessarily. We studied Elizabeth I and the Stuarts intensively, but no-one before QEI, and no-one after James II. The other history we studied included the origins of WWI and WWII, the American civil rights movement, Indonesian independence, nationalism, the development of a social welfare system and the French Revolution. I know more about Brown vs the Board of Education than I do about George III.We studied discrete periods of history, not timelines like my kids here did.

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Anonymous wrote:Brown University was originally "College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations"

That's a mouthful.

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Misericordia. I know what it means but it’s just too much to have “misery” in the name of your college.

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Anonymous wrote:Salve Regina in Newport RI. Sounds too overtly catholic/italian. Also nicknamed "sloppy v*gina"

It's a school with potential, with one of the most beautiful college campuses, in the great location of newport RI. But this school needs to change its name

Say this about another religion or group of people and it would be overtly racist...pathetic.

I'm the OP of that comment, I'm of both catholic background and southern european ancestry.

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Anonymous wrote:Ok ok not a college but Fork Union Military Academy: Fork U or F.U.

They say FUMA (foo-mah).

Reminiscent of FUPA.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think it exists anymore, but University of Maryland University College.

The ads got me all mentally tangled every time.

It's now University of Maryland Global Campus--still a mouthful.

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Quinnipiac may not be funny, but it sure is fun to say!

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Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Sounds like another state snuck one of their campuses into PA.