Which school name is spelled wrong the most often on CC?

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<p>"I always thought Caltech was spelled “California Institute of Technology”</p>

<p>Apparently only on the school’s official seal.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.caltech.edu/”>http://www.caltech.edu/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Sometimes I spell it right but iPhone autocorrects and capitalizes some words, so I let it be. Sometimes it capitalizes in the middle of a sentence. Too weird.</p>

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<p>I nominate Duquesne.</p>

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<p>Lewis & Clark College
Most people on this forum, myself included, write “Lewis and Clark College”.</p>

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<p>@ChoatieMom‌ Yes we say UM, but also increasingly UMich because the school’s URL is umich.edu.</p>

<p>Then there are the double-letter schools (e.g., Grinnell) and the silent-e schools (e.g., Carleton).</p>

<p>And some schools almost never are spelled out entirely: RISD, RPI, UCLA, UCSD, UIUC, UMD, Penn, etc.</p>

<p>As for Caltech, my uncle who teaches there always just calls it Tech. I think that’s a common usage, at least by those affiliated with the college.</p>

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<p>Add to that IUPUI</p>

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<p>Now that we are into acronyms:</p>

<p>The University of Colorado is not UC, U of C, U anything. It is CU.</p>

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<p>As a UM grad, I will often write UMich here on CC, to distinguish from the other University of M schools.</p>

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<p>And, not a school, but apparently 90% of CC denizens fill out FASFA’s not FAFSA’s. :/</p>

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<p>^Apostrophes don’t make something plural.</p>

<p>See Weird Al’s ‘Word Crimes’ video on youtube.</p>

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<p>Another vote for Rensselaer</p>

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<p>@‌Trisherella
Duquesne is probably mispronounced even more often than it is misspelled. :-w </p>

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<p>Why are schools like Univ of Colorado called “CU”? Same thing with Kansas and KU??? It makes no sense to me. </p>

<p>I’ll add Misericordia to the list, plus MuhlenBERG. </p>

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<p>How do you say it? I am guessing it’s some kind of Americanized French, like “du-CANE.”</p>

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<p>UK was already taken by U of Kentucky, I guess. </p>

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<p>Its NOT Vasser, people. It’s Vassar</p>

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<p>Thanks, Lake Washington, for bringing up Case Western Reserve. It’s not Case Western! It was formed by the merger of Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve College. Pet peeve of mine!</p>

<p>And, yes, Sally, it is pronounced Du-CANE. And in Pittsburgh Carnegie is pronounced Car-NAYG-ee.</p>

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<p>The full names of the two Cal Polys are:</p>

<p>California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona</p>

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<p>Hahvahd</p>

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<p>Dook</p>