Anonymous
Post 03/28/2022 22:54     Subject: Dumb school nicknames, nonsensical acronyms, and confusion
Anonymous wrote:University of Ver Mont?


Yeah this one's pretty straightforward. Interesting to see the Latin lines up, though!
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2022 22:32     Subject: Dumb school nicknames, nonsensical acronyms, and confusion
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
Post 03/28/2022 22:29     Subject: Dumb school nicknames, nonsensical acronyms, and confusion
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
Post 03/28/2022 22:10     Subject: Dumb school nicknames, nonsensical acronyms, and confusion
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
Post 03/28/2022 22:01     Subject: Dumb school nicknames, nonsensical acronyms, and confusion
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
Post 03/28/2022 21:59     Subject: Dumb school nicknames, nonsensical acronyms, and confusion
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
Post 03/28/2022 21:31     Subject: Dumb school nicknames, nonsensical acronyms, and confusion
Northeastern students and families who say its NU, when NU is really Northwestern.
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2022 21:20     Subject: Dumb school nicknames, nonsensical acronyms, and confusion
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
Post 03/28/2022 21:09     Subject: Dumb school nicknames, nonsensical acronyms, and confusion
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
Post 03/28/2022 20:34     Subject: Re:Dumb school nicknames, nonsensical acronyms, and confusion
Ole Miss is the absolute worst.
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2022 20:26     Subject: Dumb school nicknames, nonsensical acronyms, and confusion
University of Ver Mont?
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2022 20:24     Subject: Dumb school nicknames, nonsensical acronyms, and confusion
Yeah, I agree. My kid was upset that someone mistook us University of Southern California shirt for South Carolina. Oh well!
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2022 20:22     Subject: Dumb school nicknames, nonsensical acronyms, and confusion
CU Boulder. Please help me understand that!
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2022 20:20     Subject: Dumb school nicknames, nonsensical acronyms, and confusion
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.