At Michigan

[nq:1]Hello! Would you please tell me what you imagine when you hear the expression "at Michigan" in the following sentence? ... it that you cannot tell which university is meant just by "at Michigan"? I really appreciate your help in advance.[/nq]
It could be this one
http://www.msu.edu/

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[nq:1]Hello! Would you please tell me what you imagine when you hear the expression "at Michigan" in the following sentence? ... the word Michigan refers to. Or is it that you cannot tell which university is meant just by "at Michigan"?[/nq]
I'd take the default meaning of "I'm now teaching at X" to be "The University of X" or "X University".
If the reference is to a similarly-named instit

[nq:1]Hello! =A0Would you please tell me what you imagine when you hear the expression "at Michigan" in the following sentence? ... the word Michigan refers to. =A0Or is it that you cannot tell which university is meant just by "at Michigan"?[/nq]
It means the "University of Michigan". Not Michigan State or any other college or university in Michigan. Often certain universities are so dominant

[nq:1]Hello! Would you please tell me what you imagine when you hear the expression "at Michigan" in the following sentence? ... the word Michigan refers to. Or is it that you cannot tell which university is meant just by "at Michigan"?[/nq]
This is a colloquialism generally specific to a particular group of people in each state. Each state in the U.S. has a college or university containing th

I can't agree with it referring equally to either University of Michigan or Michigan State University.

It is, without doubt, the University of Michigan.

If you said you studied "at Penn" it's the University of Pennsylvania, not Penn State.

You would say "Michigan State" or "Penn State" or Florida State," etc.

I'm willing to bet money that if you surveyed 100

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[nq:1]I'm willing to bet money that if you surveyed 100 people who grew up in the state of Michigan and asked them which university "I teach at Michigan" referred to, not a single one of them would say it refers to Michigan State.[/nq]
That may well be so. However, knowing the meaning depends on locality. Ask 100 people in Alabama or Mississippi an

[nq:2]I'm willing to bet money that if you surveyed 100 ... one of them would say it refers to Michigan State.[/nq]
[nq:1]That may well be so. However, knowing the meaning depends on locality. Ask 100 people in Alabama or Mississippi and they would have no idea.[/nq]I think most Americans understand that saying you're going to teach at Michigan means you're going ot teach at a school called ei

Yeah, but what about the other 47 states?
[nq:1]I think most Americans understand that saying you're going to teach at Michigan means you're going ot teach at a school called either Michigan University or the University of Michigan. Not[/nq]
And in the case of Michigan there is no Michigan University. I don't know of any state or city that has both.
BTW, my brother went to Indiana Univ

[nq:2]Hello! Would you please tell me what you imagine when ... by "at Michigan"? I really appreciate your help in advance.[/nq]
[nq:1]It could be this one http://www.msu.edu/[/nq]
No it couldn't. That's Michigan State. There's a big difference between Michigan and Michigan State. Big difference.

John Varela

[nq:2]I'm willing to bet money that if you surveyed 100 ... one of them would say it refers to Michigan State.[/nq]
[nq:1]That may well be so. However, knowing the meaning depends on locality. Ask 100 people in Alabama or Mississippi and they would have no idea.[/nq]
You obviously are ignorant of college football. At least 99 out of
100 people in Alabama or Mississippi would get it rig