[huhkerrf]

It's all publicly funded universities in Texas, not just the UT system.

In other words: you've just pissed off a lot of Aggies grouping them in with, ahem, tu.

[next_xibalba]

No one in Texas calls it “TU”. Rather, UT.

[huhkerrf]

Context clues matter--note that we're both talking about Aggies and that tu is lower-cased.

They do that to imply that "varsity" is not the University _of_ Texas.

As with lots of things coming from College Station, you just sort of have to accept it.

[next_xibalba]

I live 45 minutes from A&M. I’ll repeat myself. No one in Texas calls it tu. ;)

There may be some disenfranchised barbarians out in the wilderness that do. But likely only due to their extremely tenuous grasp of the fundamentals of English. Primarily they communicate through grunts and hand signs.

[huhkerrf]

I'm not sure why you insist on doubling down. It's not hard to find info about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/aggies/comments/v54bu/why_do_you_sa...

Hell, it's on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_University

[next_xibalba]

> Texas A&M

> There may be some disenfranchised barbarians out in the wilderness that do. But likely only due to their extremely tenuous grasp of the fundamentals of English. Primarily they communicate through grunts and hand signs.

;)

[throw2312321]

"tu" is a term of disrespect used by the students at Texas A&M University (Aggies).

A&M is the other very large public university system in Texas. So there is a small intra-state rivalry there.