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I.T colleges that rearrange the letters

  • 18-03-2015 08:20PM
    #1
    veryangryman
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    Inspired by the thread on funny place names, is it a coincidence that tralee and Galway rearrange the letters to not sound rude. GMIT and the epic ITT specifically


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
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    veryangryman wrote: »
    Inspired by the thread on funny place names, is it a coincidence that tralee and Galway rearrange the letters to not sound rude. GMIT and the epic ITT specifically

    It never stopped Springfield heights


  • #3
    Timberrrrrrrr
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    Because Tallaght institute of technology would be T.I.T


  • #4
    mikemac1
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    GMIT was the RTC before it changed names.

    Get an old skool taximan in Galway and ask for GMIT and he'll call it the RTC

    Mayo as they have a campus in Castlebar

    Whatcha on about OP? :)


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
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    Not an IT, but...BAAPS


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
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    Are Tallaght and Tralee both ITT?


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  • #7
    Mal-Adjusted
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    I don't get the Galway one. It's the Galway Mayo institute of technology. where's the rudeness?


  • #8
    YFlyer
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    mikemac1 wrote: »
    GMIT was the RTC before it changed names.

    Get an old skool taximan in Galway and ask for GMIT and he'll call it the RTC

    Mayo as they have a campus in Castlebar

    Whatcha on about OP? :)

    LIT in Limerick was an RTC and before that a CoACT.


  • #9
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,792 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    veryangryman wrote: »
    Inspired by the thread on funny place names, is it a coincidence that tralee and Galway rearrange the letters to not sound rude. GMIT and the epic ITT specifically

    I think you're making up the ITT one.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=28


  • #10
    YFlyer
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    Don't forget Shligo Institute of Technology.


  • #11
    Buona Fortuna
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    Mal-Adjusted wrote: »
    I don't get the Galway one. It's the Galway Mayo institute of technology. where's the rudeness?

    Thanks I thought I was just being obtuse


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  • #12
    Shrap
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    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    I think you're making up the ITT one.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=28

    Why?! It clearly says I.T. Tralee? Should say T.I.T., but doesn't. My eldest hoping to go to TIT next year....perhaps the name factored into his college choices now I think about it...


  • #13
    Geniass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 643 ✭✭✭Geniass


    Buona Fortuna wrote: »
    Thanks I thought I was just being obtuse

    GIT!

    Before they stuck the M in.

    Very English saying. Think Delboy.


  • #14
    errlloyd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,642 ✭✭✭✭errlloyd


    With IT Tallaghts current desperate "I did it *wink*" innuendo ad campaign, I don't see why they don't just rename to TIT


  • #15
    Rumple Fugly
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    Sligo Higher Institute of Technology


  • #16
    dxhound2005
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    Shrap wrote: »
    Why?! It clearly says I.T. Tralee? Should say T.I.T., but doesn't. My eldest hoping to go to TIT next year....perhaps the name factored into his college choices now I think about it...

    Dundalk IT abbreviation is DKIT. What does the K stand for. Or the Y in LYIT? Using this system Tralee could be TEIT.


  • #17
    Buona Fortuna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    Geniass wrote: »
    GIT!

    Before they stuck the M in.

    Very English saying. Think Delboy.

    Thanks I know Git, but isn't it Galway & Mayo IT?


  • #18
    Shrap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,163 ✭✭✭Shrap


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    Dundalk IT abbreviation is DKIT. What does the K stand for. Or the Y in LYIT? Using this system Tralee could be TRIT.

    Oh right. See what you mean now - yeah, they could have just called it T.R.I.T. or something.


  • #19
    Geniass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 643 ✭✭✭Geniass


    Buona Fortuna wrote: »
    Thanks I know Git, but isn't it Galway & Mayo IT?

    It is now :)


  • #20
    brianclown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75 ✭✭brianclown


    Geniass wrote: »
    GIT!

    Before they stuck the M in.

    Very English saying. Think Delboy.

    Or MGIT (Mid-get)


  • #21
    Un Croissant
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    I had planned on going to the City of Limericks Insitite of Technology. Can never find the damn place.


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  • #22
    ollaetta
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    YFlyer wrote: »
    LIT in Limerick was an RTC and before that a CoACT.

    If it ever extended to cover Clare & Limerick it might have to be a girls only college as fellas mightn't be able to find it. ;)


    Edit: @Un Croissant. Great minds and in exactly the same minute too!!


  • #23
    Buona Fortuna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    Geniass wrote: »
    It is now :)

    OK, so you're alluding to a time in folklore where it "should" have been called GIT but wasn't?

    If they're that sensitive GTI would seem to not be ground breaking.


  • #24
    thee glitz
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    NUIM changed their name for no good reason I can tell but they really did have to change the name of the
    DIPloma in Software, Hardware & IT.


  • #25
    Super-Rush
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    Is git a rude word?


  • #26
    skittles8710
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    Tralee was an RTC too. They had a temporary sign with TraLee institute of technology on the front of the campus for a few months after the changeover.. They soon realised the unintentional comedic value and rearranged to ITT


  • #27
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    I remember a similar conversation not long after the DART began operating in Dublin.

    Ould wans in shops asking each other if it was built in Cork would they call it the CART?

    And what if they built it in Fermanagh?

    Oh how they laughed themselves silly at that one before saying 'oh lord help us,'

    I think I was about five at the time.


  • #28
    efb
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    Poor lot Cavan/Leitrim RTC never got upgraded


  • #29
    Lapin
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    Super-Rush wrote: »
    Is git a rude word?

    No.

    But who wants to hang a framed diploma on the wall with the letters G I T spelled out in large capital letters above their name?


  • #30
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,832 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    DART stands for Dublin Area Rapid Transit. Growing up I always hoped Fermanagh would get their own version


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  • #31
    vienne86
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    UCG supposedly became NUIG.......but I know a few guys working there who still call it UCG. Hard enough to change these habits.


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