Penn (Ivy) vs Penn St (best school in the country according to many locals). When I hear someone talking about going to Penn, I usually have to ask which one. It could be either.
“Where are you hoping to go next year?”
“Penn.”
“Which one, State College or Philly?”
Quinnipac (or whatever).
Harvard College v Harvard U.
Miami…
OH or FL?
Wooster (not “rooster”), and not Worcester. Even Ohio people sometimes get it wrong.
Also, 1 too many Wheatons.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
It’s not Juanita. It’s Juniata (in PA.) But even they don’t seem to agree. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSEiwNyipe0
Sewanee
Not Swanee
^ “University of the South.”
When you live in Northern VA (as I do), “Madison” implies James Madison University (aka JMU).
College of Charleston and University of Charleston.
In a news article I read it described a speaker as a graduate of Northeastern University’s McGill School of Journalism in Chicago. Pretty sure he was a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in Evanston.
Canisius - “kun - e - shus”
Samford in Alabama, not Stanford in CA. That’s a BIG difference.
^was Just going to post that lol 
Wesleyan GA
OSU? Ohio State, Oklahoma State or Oregon State?
BearHouse, and having the same school colors really threw me for a loop when a neighbor kid showed up in an orange and black OSU tee shirt…I was wondering why he was going all the way to Corvallis.
On these forums I have seen UT (University of Texas) get confused with UofT (University of Toronto).
Also Miami University of Ohio is NOT in Miami Florida!
@lookingforward ?? The video is of students/staff reacting to the CBS morning show host who was the one getting it wrong. No one in the video calls their school “Juanita”; they all agree.
The only variation in pronunciation that I have heard from students and faculty is June-ee-ATTA vs. June-ee-AHta. But that’s just an EE-ther/EYE-ther, tomAYto/tomAHto type thing.