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.

UConn's basketball team are the 'Huskies'. Geddit?

Ha - I never got that before

I heard it said in full*.

I'll probably come up with more when I'm trying to fall asleep later

Not one you'd ever come up with because no one outside of Maine would need to know it, but there's UMPI, University of Maine at Presque Isle...

In my experience the kind of students that call it "uni" are exceptionally wet.

@SpringSnow It's a good thing that your experience isn't an accurate reflection on all students then.

Everyone I know (and those I don't know) refers to it as uni. Whenever strangers refer to it online, they call it "uni". The rare occasion I've seen it said in full, it's usually by some smarmy, stuck up twat.

We can all generalise.

And it's not some clique term used by "wet students".

Isn’t the whole point of this is that op finds it an irritating expression?

lipstick please don’t take the ‘christ’ out of Christmas

@Aintnothingbutaheartache Yes, it's the basis of the thread, which means people then respond with their views on things.

I stand corrected 9am

Many American colleges have a mascot animal or avian. Why not a dog?

Yale Bulldogs
And University of Georgia Bulldogs, better known as just the Dawgs.

Many American colleges have a mascot animal or avian. Why not a dog?
Indeed, though there are lots of huskies. My local HS has a husky as a mascot too.

Southern Illinois University chose the very unique and obscure saluki, an oblique reference to the nearby river town of Cairo.

It's not restricted to animals and avians - Texas Christian University are the Horned Frogs.

My personal favourite among the mascots is the Leprechaun of Notre Dame, home of the 'Fighting Irish' (I think they should be called the Reading and Writing Irish).

But the absolute best has to be the University of Pennsylvania Quakers. Not the fighting Quakers, though.

Another dog one. Carnegie Mellon University sports teams are known as the Tartans, but their official mascot is a Scottish Terrier, known as Scotty.

Another for math’s list - UMass or UMass Amherst etc if needing to be specific.

Also known as “ZooMass” when I was growing up...

Back on the eastern side of the pond, of course there's UCL which I believe is generally referred to as such.

However, moving on to the frankly more interesting strand of discussion which has emerged, do any U.K. educational institutions have animal mascots, and if not, why not?

Although not a mascot, I very much like Selwyn College's Very Large Cat

@9amTrain the students that call it "uni" in my experience were the ones that needed endless "support", cried when they didn't get the marks they thought they deserved, and caused their halls to be robbed after letting in random people from the streets.

@SpringSnow well I'm certainly not like that and as I said, it's rare that people DON'T call it uni. Apart from the OP I can't remember the last time someone called it university, so...

And I also this it's fucking stupid and frankly bizarre at how shortening the name of an educational establishment (which most people do) means one is likely to have the traits you've mentioned.

Hilarious.

Also think*

Getting quantities right bugs me. If you can count them, they are a number, if it is the size of something it is an amount.
You don't have an amount of people, they can be counted so therefore a number.

Seconded.

the students that call it "uni" in my experience were the ones that needed endless "support", cried when they didn't get the marks they thought they deserved, and caused their halls to be robbed after letting in random people from the streets.
This actually made me laugh out loud!

I find it irritating. I first remember hearing it on Neighbours in the 80s but at that time no one in the UK said it, probably because there were also Polytechnics and Colleges of Higher Education. Do parents who went to university themselves call it uni? I suspect not.

@Dungeondragon15 the ones I know do. Maybe it's a regional thing because it's not an age thing.

Even my nan calls it uni!

Do parents who went to university themselves call it uni?

Yes, many do at least some of the time.