<p>康乃爾大學-Cornell University (repose, some demonstratives, you)
哥倫比亞大學-Columbia University (older brother, morals, comparison, Asia)
布朗大學-Brown University (cloth, clear)
哈佛大學-Harvard University (smile, Buddha)
普林斯頓大學-Princeton University (large, forest, immediately, salute)
耶魯大學-Yale University (final particle, stupid)
賓夕法尼亞大學-University of Pennsylvania (visitor, dusk, laws, mud, Asia)
達特茅斯學院-Dartmouth College (penetrate, on purpose, hut, immediately)
(At least, this is what I was able to look up, sometimes using more uncommon definitions)</p>
<p>Yale is probably the worst phonetically named ivy league. It sounds painful like ail. I can imgaine going to the doctor and hearing “whats yailing you”. It sounds too much like suffering. Princeton on the other hand sounds perfect. It has prince in it which can be connected to power, strength and leadership. An amazing name for an amazing school.</p>
<p>From a purely phonetic point of view, Harvard sounds harsh to me. It’s like aardvark or something. I like Dartmouth’s name best… no idea why.</p>
<p>i have to say, im a brown 2011, but damn, princeton sounds sexy. when you have the word ‘prince’ in the word, it reminds me of</p>
<p>a. someone of high prestige about to become king
and
b. prince, you know, the pop star</p>
<p>those two combined, you get an awfully sexy name. </p>
<p>so here are my rankings</p>
<ol>
<li>princeton</li>
</ol>
<p>BIG GAP</p>
<ol>
<li>columbia</li>
<li>dartmouth</li>
<li>yale</li>
<li>harvard</li>
<li>brown</li>
<li>penn</li>
<li>‘corn’-ell</li>
</ol>
<p>This is probably one of my favorite threads to ever surface (and re-surface) on CC. </p>
<p>Whenever somebody talks about the actual name of Princeton, though, I think about that Hilary Duff movie Cinderella Story or something where she asks her dad where princesses go to college and he says “where the princes go…they go to Princeton.” And even though that movie was pretty bad, it was so so good in a bad way. </p>
<p>But regardless, Princeton is the best ;).</p>
<p>^^hahaha I did not notice that in the Cinderella Story!!</p>
<p>Dartmouth seriously? Would you really want the MOUTH on your degree? LOLS.</p>
<p>It’s not MOUTH. It’s more like “muth”</p>
<ol>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>Brown</li>
</ol>
<p>But I (and the people I know) say it like Dartmyth rather than DartmOUth. I like the word dart (no idea why) and love the word myth (also no idea why). I also have a silly fondness for words where the vowels are pronounced different from how they look. I’m also fond of saying Oregon (Orygun), etc. As you can tell, I pay way too much attention to the way words “feel” in my mouth…</p>
<p>Now, don’t get me wrong. I adore Princeton. But I’m not that fond of the word “prince”. Everyone here seems to think princeliness is a good association. For me, it reminds me all my moral problems with royalty as well as how strangely obsessed people are with royal families even in countries where they’re little more than figureheads.</p>
<p>Haha whenever I hear “Columbia” I think “Colombia” and then I think crack.</p>