For the love of God can adults please stop saying uni

[CressidaEgg]

Let's reclaim the five syllable word. University. It grates to read MNers talking about their DC going off to "uni" or even about their own time at "uni". Just call it what it is: university.

Someone has a lot of time on their hands lol...

Uni! Uni! Uni!

I remember my father being outraged by "uni" in about 1970 when my cousin came tonsray from Australia-she was at Monash.

Chippy? I won't say where I went to university.*

*I don't, as I said, use 'uni' myself. Never have. But I can cope with others using it without it 'grating', and without feeling the need to feel superior to them.

Not read the whole thread but I think that it came from the TV show Neighbours in a he late 80s. I remember thinking that it sounded strange but soon everyone (including me) was using it!

I call hypocrisy. MNetters instead of Mumsnetters. Shock, horror.

It's a ridiculous word.

When I was a student it was called college, and it still is in the part of the world I live in now.

Holibobs.......aaaaarghghghhg

the only word i hate is bae

i mean wtf

U ok hun?!

Yabu - if this is the sort of shite you have time to worry about, study Shakespearean English and see how you get on with that.
Language evolves and this sort of daily-mail-reader outrage and criticism of language is a sign that maybe you’re lagging behind....

Who can be arsed to say that university when uni will do?

Just no.

MrBenn
No - Uni was in use well before the 1980's and Neighbours!

It was Uni when I was there - 1970's

Hastag. First. World. Problems.

Uni. Nothing wrong with it at all. This thread has been done many times since the one in 2007 🤣 at a minimum, annually, around this time. It’s not the only annual ‘stick up your arse thread’, but it’s the most notable. I agree with a PP who said it’s dated and aging to call it University.

of course it’s uni,every one I know calls it uni.or if they’re posh younee

Ruby Ruby Ruby

Maybe we should all start calling our prams, perambulators again?

Or say we're using our telephones or watching television.

sigh seriously feel bad for people who are so irritated by something so inconsequential as this that they have to post it on here.

I was at uni in the late 70s, again in Scotland. Never watched Neighbours in my life. I remember it grating on me when my aunt referred to it as Varsity and telling her to use uni or university instead. College was where I went to do a post grad secretarial course yonks later. Or when referring to the different parts of the uni.

Or say we're using our telephones or watching television.

I still say television. God forbid that I should say "telly."

Which reminds me..... HATE HATE HATE "belly."

Yes YABU

Or say we're using our telephones or watching television
Actually I do say television. That has probably totally outed me as the only person under 80 to use the full word.

These replies are so savage 😂

I can't say "uni" or "guy". Just too trendy. I've only just started using balsamic vinegar and sun-dried tomato paste. In ten or twenty years I'll try quinoa.