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Originally Posted by DeltAlum
When I was growing up in Columbus, most people just called it Ohio State -- or just "State."
The "The" started a few years ago.
It think it sounds really pretentious.
While we don't use our "The," Ohio University was called The Ohio University when founded in 1804.
We're nice, though, and allow our younger sister to use it -- even though they tried to copyright the word "Ohio" a few years ago.
How crass.
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The copywriting of "Ohio" was completely stupid in MHO. I was annoyed when they tried to tell all the sports writers to stop calling us "Ohio University" and just call us "Ohio".
And I think the "The" thing started when in the late 80s/early 90s Ohio State tried to get people to stop calling the school "OSU" becuase it caused confusion with other OSUs. So the school started to really push it's offical name. I remember getting brochures from them in high school and one year it had "OSU" on it and the next it was "The Ohio State University".
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