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On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 15:45:38 -0700, (Dan Abel) wrote:
>Words mean different things in different places. That doesn't necessarily
>mean that people in other areas are dumb because they use words
>differently than you use locally.
Exception: Certain otherwise undumb Hoosiers call a bell pepper a
mango, the poor darlings.
>
>col€lege (kÄl2¾j) n. Abbr. col. coll. 1. a. An institution of higher
>learning that grants the bachelor's degree in liberal arts or science or
>both. b. An undergraduate division or school of a university offering
>courses and granting degrees in a particular field. c. A school, sometimes
>but not always a university, offering special instruction in professional
>or technical subjects. d. The students, faculty, and administration of
>such a school or institution. e. The building or buildings occupied by
>such a school or institution. f. Chiefly British A self-governing society
>of scholars for study or instruction, incorporated within a university. g.
>An institution in France for secondary education that is not supported by
>the state.
Would that be the College de France, then?
>2. a. A body of persons having a common purpose or shared
>duties: a college of surgeons. b. An electoral college. 3. A body of
>clerics living together on an endowment. n. attributive. 1. Often used to
>modify another noun: college courses; college faculty.
>
The institution of higher learning from which my beloved daughter
graduated last month is a college, a pretty good one, I'm told.
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>My dictionary uses the following for university:
>
>u€ni€ver€si€ty (yá1nú-vûr2s¾-tT) n. pl. u€ni€ver€si€ties Abbr. univ. Univ.
Is that an Elbonian dictionary?
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>See universe ]
I'll look.
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>Sometime before I started work here at SSU (back almost before recorded
>history) it was called Sonoma State College. Sometime after then, I found
>out that the three state colleges in my home state had been renamed to
>universities. In the case of SSU, I believe it had to do with the
>increased number of graduate degrees offered.
The university at which D and I "teach" was once East Texas Teacher's
College, then ET Normal College (Abnormal College is up in Oklahoma),
then East Texas State University (which was comprised of several
colleges), then Texas A&M University-Commerce (same number of
colleges, but more paperwork). I lobbied long and hard for East Texas
A&M, but was powerless to affect the choice, alas. I really wanted to
work at a place called ETAM --say "eat 'em" -- and the university
press would be ETAMUP. Cookbooks would have been a natural fit.
modom
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