XPost: alt.usage.english   
   From: larry@invalid.ca   
      
   On 2024-09-23 06:50, Peter Moylan wrote:   
   > On 23/09/24 16:16, Rich Ulrich wrote:   
   >   
   >> Texas Tech alumni were proud of their name and fought successfullly   
   >> against the proposed renaming to "Texas State University";  thus,   
   >> the odd variation, Texas Tech University.   
   >   
   > One Melbourne tertiary institution started in 1887 as the Working Men's   
   > College. After a couple of name changes and mergers, it became the Royal   
   > Melbourne Institute of Technology in 1960. When I taught there in 1967   
   > (only one subject, as a casual teacher) it was considered to be the most   
   > prestigious technical college in the state.   
   >   
   > It is now called RMIT University. On its web site, it is not easy to   
   > discover what RMIT stands for.   
      
   I had quite a chuckle when an advertisement on TV spoke of an event   
   happening at the First Nations University here in Regina.   
      
   It's abbreviated name is "FNUniv", and the guy speaking called it   
   "F N univ", which sound exactly like 'eff'n univ'.   
      
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