@LeastComplicated Actually, people in Pittsburgh/Western Pennsylvania do pronounce Carnegie with the emphasis on the second syllable. There are lots of things there with the name Carnegie because of Andrew Carnegie’s association with the area-a town, a university, museums, libraries.
It’s many New Yorkers though that seem to say Carnegie Hall in New York with the emphasis on the first syllable.
Case Western Reserve University sounds like it should be in Montana or Wyoming instead of Cleveland.
Boston College isn’t technically in Boston (just a few fields) and isn’t a college.
In any case, I believe Connecticut has dropped its claim on the region.
Wesleyan - I’d be shocked if there were more than a hundred practicing Methodists there at any given moment.
St. John’s College: is not a religious college.
…or a school with Spelling as a major. (Scripps National Spelling Bee)
St. Mary’s College of Maryland: also not a religious college.
Sounds like it should be a whiskey. Or maybe a whisky. I never get the two straight.
Washington University
University of Moron (Argentina)
I’ll thank you not to refer to Princeton that way!
University of Southern California administrators tried to get people to stop using the term “Southern Cal” when referring to the university. They thought it gave people the impression that USC was the southern branch of UC Berkeley, aka “Cal”.
CMC: some think Claremont Men’s College before they remember that it is now Claremont McKenna
Deep Springs: misnomer if applied to the dating pool.
It is, in fact, one of the oldest colleges in the USA - established 1780.
Fun fact- in 1988, Hallmark Cards started selling shirts which were supposedly from Dracula’s Alma mater, “Transylvania University”. Transylvania U. threatened to sue, and Hallmark cards managed to add insult to injury by admitting that they had never heard of Transylvania University in Kentucky.
Hallmark did pull the shirts, though.
for copyright infringement, because Hallmark
So I looked it up. Mount Ida (which apparently recently closed and was taken over by UMass) is even lower.
University of Rhode Island is not actually on Rhode Island. (Now called Aquidineck Island)
Penn State. There is no State of Pennsylvania.
Oh, goodie – then it should be called Penn Commonwealth U, or PCU!
There is a movie by that name.
