> I'm sure that St Andrews is a brilliant college.
It's not a 'college' at all.
It's not a 'college' at all.
It doesn't make sense to me how here in Europe universities tries to say that they aren't anything but a university. Americans got this one right. How else would you compare where to study? Do you say "university rankings" but include non universities there that doesn't do research? You go there to do college studies, and try to find the best place to do college studies, why say it is wrong to call it a college?
An undergraduate degree isn't 'college studies' in British English. Nobody would say that.
> why say it is wrong to call it a college?
Why is it wrong to call it a fish? Because it's not a fish.
Why is it wrong to call it a college? Because it's not a college.
Like all these lunatics yesterday talking about 'Sir Sinclair'.
Calling it a 'college' makes it sound like something less than it is. I would try not to mis-title things from another culture myself.
This is hardly a 'slam' for St Andrews; aluminum is more concise than aluminium, as is 'math' compared to 'maths'.
In the US a 'public' school is -not- elite (fee-charging); the general 'public' is welcome there. Not just stuck-up nit-pickers.