Anonymous
Post 02/07/2026 13:03     Subject: Universities where the Abbreviation Doesn't Match the Name
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


Virginia Tech has always used VT. This is nothing new. Georgia Tech is GT, etc.


How naive.


Not sure what you’re on about, but also don’t really care.
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2026 13:02     Subject: Universities where the Abbreviation Doesn't Match the Name
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


Virginia Tech has always used VT. This is nothing new. Georgia Tech is GT, etc.


For about a century, it was called VPI. I remember when it called itself VPI and later called itself VPI&SU. It was a big deal when they added the "&SU" part.

It has NOT always used VT - that actually is relatively new.


I grew up and went to college in the 80s. It was definitely referred to as VT back then and that was a loooooong time ago.
DP
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2026 12:29     Subject: Universities where the Abbreviation Doesn't Match the Name
There used to be College of Notre Dame of Maryland. Its unfortunate abbreviation of CONDOM may have spurred the name change.
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2026 11:31     Subject: Universities where the Abbreviation Doesn't Match the Name
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.


Everyone at Delaware calls it UD.
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2026 11:30     Subject: Universities where the Abbreviation Doesn't Match the Name
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


Everyone at Delaware calls it UD.

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
Post 02/07/2026 10:46     Subject: Universities where the Abbreviation Doesn't Match the Name
Anonymous wrote:Penn for PSU 😂


Those are two different schools. PSU is in State College, Pennsylvania and Penn is in Philadelphia.
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2026 10:42     Subject: Universities where the Abbreviation Doesn't Match the Name
U of Western Ontario now wants people to call it “Western.”
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2026 10:40     Subject: Universities where the Abbreviation Doesn't Match the Name
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


Virginia Tech has always used VT. This is nothing new. Georgia Tech is GT, etc.


How naive.
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2026 06:40     Subject: Universities where the Abbreviation Doesn't Match the Name
U of SC vs USC in Southern California. I just use SC or South Carolina when it isn’t obvious which one we’re talking about.

Ole Miss for U Mississippi.

All the Loyolas, only the LA one is LMU.
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2026 06:26     Subject: Universities where the Abbreviation Doesn't Match the Name
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


Virginia Tech has always used VT. This is nothing new. Georgia Tech is GT, etc.


For about a century, it was called VPI. I remember when it called itself VPI and later called itself VPI&SU. It was a big deal when they added the "&SU" part.

It has NOT always used VT - that actually is relatively new.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 13:14     Subject: Universities where the Abbreviation Doesn't Match the Name
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Isn't Virginia Tech also VPI somehow?


No one actually uses that.


Librarians do!

So do people over the age of about 80ish and from around here. Rampant amongst my parents' generation.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 12:59     Subject: Universities where the Abbreviation Doesn't Match the Name
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Isn't Virginia Tech also VPI somehow?


No one actually uses that.


Librarians do!
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 12:55     Subject: Universities where the Abbreviation Doesn't Match the Name
Anonymous wrote:Isn't Virginia Tech also VPI somehow?


No one actually uses that.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 12:55     Subject: Universities where the Abbreviation Doesn't Match the Name
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


Virginia Tech has always used VT. This is nothing new. Georgia Tech is GT, etc.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 12:29     Subject: Universities where the Abbreviation Doesn't Match the Name
Although Wash U in St. Louis is now pushing that as the abbreviation, back in the day “wustl” was pretty common. What made it fun was how many people just said it like it was a word, e.g. “I go to woostel”