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From: Malcolm Austen< >
Subject: Re: OXON?
Date: 5 Feb 1998 17:17:04 GMT
In article <>,
Valletort <> wrote:
>Its cousin (?) I guess is "Cantab" (Cambridge)
Well, yes, sort of .. I should perhaps declare that I was not educated
at the Polytechnic of the Fens and so cannot claim to be an authority.
(but that ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ should be enough to tell you where my
degree did come from 8-)
I think that common usage would contract Cambridgeshire to Cambs. I
guess it would be too easily confused with Canterbury for postal
usage. The only place I would generally expect to see Cantab in modern
usage is to, say, distinguish my BA(Oxon) from someone else's
BA(Cantab) - which does not, of course, come from the University of
Kent at Canterbury!
Oxon would not normally be used to represent Oxford (ie. the City),
only the County or (as above) the University .. but I'm talking current
usage, usage changes over the centuries.
regards,
Malcolm.
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~malcol
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