What does UVM stand for?
Well, I live in Vermont. I see bumper stickers all over that simply say “VT”. The state abbrviation is VT. Shouldn’t University of Vermont be abbrivaited as UVT?
Where does the “M” come from?
From the the linked website:
“Called UVM for Universitas Viridis Montis, Latin for “University of the Green Mountains””
I’ve never heard anyone say they are a student at Universitas Viridis Montis. If UVM stands for Universitas Viridis Montis, then there should be no such school known as University of Vermont.
That’s just plain silly. The school is University of Vermont. The abbreviation of the school comes from the latin (which I’m willing to bet it on the school seal). Why is that a problem?
The abbreviation is derived from the Latin translation of the name. Duh.
It may also be due to VT being perhaps more widely known as Virginia Tech.
Since the OP indicated “schools” and not just UVM, can anybody help clear up why the University of Miami (Florida) is known as just “The U” and even has its logo on its helmets as a split “U”? I seem to recall something about hurricane warning flags of those colors, but have yet to find anything definitive about “the U.”
Why does anyone do anything? The University of Denver calls itself DU. I can’t imagine that the confusion with the University of Dayton or the University of Delaware is that big of a problem. Those crazy college administrators…
I could have sworn I once started a thread about why certain universities reverse their acronym: University of Colorado as CU, Nebraska as NU, Oklahoma as OU, Missouri as MU, Kansas as KU. But I can’t find it. Possibly lost in the Winter of Our Missed Content.
Anyway, the answer was that back in the Big-8 days (70s), the league had some kind of marketing campaign that worked better if all the acronyms ended with a U, so they switched them around. I think someone answered why Denver (which was not in the Big 8) had switched its acronym, but I forget why that was.
The funny thing is the University of Nebraska system is “NU”. However individual campuses like University of Nebraska-Lincoln is UNL, Omaha is UNO, and Kearney is UNK.
I also always wondered about the split “U” in Miami’s helmets.