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<p>Actually, Dartmouth has a pretty nice campus. Doesn’t smell like fish at all. Although it still does sound like a fish speices. And most people do pronounce the ‘t.’ </p>
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<p>True :)</p>
<p>hmm, for me:
- Princeton
- Yale (I dunno…i’ve always thought it was simple but very elegant…“i go to Yaaaaaaaale,” ooh.)
- Harvard
- Dartmouth
- Columbia
- Penn (the people at Penn ALWAYS call it Penn, and they cringe when people say UPenn)
- Cornell (yeah, corn)
- Brown (drab, like the color)</p>
<p>I think whichever one sounds best when spoken with an English accent would win the phonetic contest.</p>
<p>id go with chopstick but switching dartmouth and harvard.</p>
<p>Dartmouth and Princeton baby!</p>
<p>Yes yes, Princeton and Dartmouth.</p>
<ol>
<li>Princeton </li>
<li>Dartmouth (for some reason makes me think of a really dark forest with vines and stuff…nice)</li>
<li>Columbia (makes me feel… idealistic?)</li>
<li>Yale (regal)</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>Harvard (“Har” followed by the “ar” sound again later just doesn’t make it sound quite as nice as the others)</li>
<li>Cornell (There was a time when I was considering Cornell, Wheaton, and Rice… lol)</li>
<li>Brown (I like the color and I like the school… but a very plain name nontheless)</li>
</ol>
<p>However, none of them sound as awful as “Tufts.” J/k j/k of course 
…or not.</p>
<p>In the future, your employers will grade you on the phonetic usage of your university :o</p>
<p>That having been said,
Dart-mouth is pretty disturbing.
I’ll continue to pronounce it incorrectly, mouth mouth mouth…</p>
<p>'eck, didn’t even know it was Ivy League, nor Brown, nor Penn.</p>
<p>Nothin’ wrong with a little Corn in the diet - entirely healthy.
As for Hahvahd, makes good T-shirt sales.</p>
<p>Princeton sounds regal and classy.
Harvard sounds nice as well
Yale is simple and classy and unique.
Columbia? I keep thinking of it as that country that grows drugs
Cornel sounds pretty good although it sound a bit corny. no pun intended
Penn- maybe they should call themselver Pencil next time
Brown- thats gotta be the worst name ever</p>
<p>BUMP</p>
<p>hehe, this thread amuses me.</p>
<p>You Ivy League linguists would probably enjoy the thread I just started in the Yale area called “Try to top this Yale story!” It probably explains why the romance languages are not big in New Haven.</p>
<p>P.S. I went to lowly Boston College, so have no stake in this fight.</p>
<p>I used to think that Dartmouth was really pronounced: “Dart” “Mouth”</p>
<p>hmmmm. :D</p>
<p>I like Columbia the best because it sounds like a lady walking in high heeled pumps. And I love shoes.</p>
<p>If someone could get a famous rap star to start referring to a certain part of the male anatomy as a “dart,” Hanover, NH would be a ghost town 4 years later.</p>
<p>UPS isn’t doing the Providence entry any favors with its catchy slogan.</p>
<p>Ok, I guess nobody is checking out my anecdote over on the Yale board. So I’ll repeat it here. It’s a TRUE STORY.</p>
<p>A few decades ago, my father managed a small Chrysler parts plant near Chicago. About half of his workers were Hispanic. My father needed a new foreman, and wanted to hire from within his organization. He had heard that one of the workers was a Yale man, and figured that such a well-educated person would make a good leader.</p>
<p>My father called the man to his office. My father said, “I hear you went to Yale.”</p>
<p>The worker got very nervous and said, “Yeah, but it was no big deal. Back in Cuba I got caught stealing a bicycle, and the judge sent me to yale for 6 months.”</p>
<p>Hahaha that’s hilarious!</p>
<p>I deal with a lot of foreign-born people on a daily basis. It’s fascinating to hear them talk about their reactions to college names. They universally hate the name Brown. Dartmouth sounds harsh to them. Virginia sounds to them like a certain part of the female anatomy (not that there’s anything wrong with that!). They all seem to love the name “Princeton.”</p>
<p>For me
- Columbia (makes me feel romantic)
- Princeton (very British)
- Harvard (The Chinese version is better)
- Dartmouth (pretty nice)
- Cornell (ok)
- UPenn (too short)
- Brown (no comment…)
- Yale (It just sounds horrible!!!)</p>
<p>Cornell sounds a bit like “corn oil,” and Penn doesn’t remind me of “pencil.” It reminds me of a small enclosure, like a playpen or a pigpen.</p>
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<li>Penn (this isn’t a name, it’s a description)</li>
<li>Brown (too ordinary for such an extraordinary school)</li>
<li>Yale (props for having a short enough name to print in large letters on shirts, but otherwise rather greasy sounding)</li>
<li>Cornell (good, solid surname, but corn oil)</li>
<li>Dartmouth (not quite as good as the first three but definitely superior to the latter four)</li>
<li>Columbia (very academic sounding, due to Latin root)</li>
<li>Harvard (wide, round, and powerful)</li>
<li>Princeton (tall, slim, stately sound)</li>
</ol>
<p>Besides, either Penn’s newspaper has a good sense of humor, or their staff has no originality whatsoever. Check out the masthead online – the design looks ripped off the LA Times, and there is a tagline that reads, “The Web Site of the Independent Student Newspaper of the University of Pennsylvania.”</p>