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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Their own website is upenn@edu.  
No need to be snarky
sometimes people confuse it with Penn State.  UPenn is used commonly to differentiate. 
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It's not a question of snark; I'm just trying to save people from sounding like rubes. If you go to the University of Massachusetts, you go to "UMass." If you go to the University of Pennsylvania, you go to "Penn," not "UPenn." Like I said, I grew up in Philadelphia. No one in Pennsylvania at least confuses Penn with Penn State. Never in my life have I heard anyone refer to Penn State as "Penn." Go to the Penn Bookstore (in person or online) and try to find a shirt or mug or anything with "UPenn" on it, and you will find nothing. Only "Penn." It's a small distinction, perhaps, but an important one.

I did my undergraduate at "Dartmouth College," and I assure you it grates on every Dartmouth alumnus when someone in the media refers to "Dartmouth University." The famous "Dartmouth College Case," argued before the US Supreme Court by Daniel Webster, involved the attempt by the State of New Hampshire to take over Dartmouth College and convert it into a public university. Among other things, the state attempted to rename the school "Dartmouth University." The college won the case. The name "Dartmouth University" was thrown in the trash. And this famous phrase was coined: "It is, Sir, as I have said, a small college, and yet, there are those who love it."

Names matter. For Penn alums, the misnomer "UPenn" is like fingers on a chalkboard.[/quote]

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