Re: campus vs. yard
| November 07, 2019 06:13PM |
philip.marshall Wrote:
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> Yes, I've been slightly irritated by this usage in
> the past, but I've come to accept it. The word is
> a lot older than the modern university though.
> Campus is just the Latin for a field or
> area of level ground - in other words, a yard.
Well, I'll be ejamacated! I have seen the use of the word in a railway sense and have always assumed it was relating to a university or college, nothing to get too curious about as you Americans have a different way of doing things such as your Electoral College System of voting, is that anything to do with colleges?? Don't bother answering, I really don't want to bring politics into the thread.
We obviously don't use the word campus in that form down here in Oz, a railway yard is a yard or a station.
Wayne from Oz
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> Yes, I've been slightly irritated by this usage in
> the past, but I've come to accept it. The word is
> a lot older than the modern university though.
> Campus is just the Latin for a field or
> area of level ground - in other words, a yard.
Well, I'll be ejamacated! I have seen the use of the word in a railway sense and have always assumed it was relating to a university or college, nothing to get too curious about as you Americans have a different way of doing things such as your Electoral College System of voting, is that anything to do with colleges?? Don't bother answering, I really don't want to bring politics into the thread.
We obviously don't use the word campus in that form down here in Oz, a railway yard is a yard or a station.
Wayne from Oz
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