Talk:Oxbridge
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Proper noun sense 2:
A region of England, United Kingdom. The region between Oxford and Cambridge, inclusive; a partial-belt arc around London.
Not heard this in use at all. Would include places like Milton Keynes and Bedford, which feels implausible. Theknightwho (talk) 11:03, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
- Sounds like nonsense to me, someone’s probably just confused Oxbridge and Uxbridge. Overlordnat1 (talk) 15:38, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
- I’ve heard this being used in Singapore as a portmanteau for Oxford University and Cambridge University collectively. — Sgconlaw (talk) 05:18, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- That's sense 1 Chuck Entz (talk) 05:37, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Chuck Entz: ah, right. — Sgconlaw (talk) 09:29, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- That's sense 1 Chuck Entz (talk) 05:37, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- I’ve heard this being used in Singapore as a portmanteau for Oxford University and Cambridge University collectively. — Sgconlaw (talk) 05:18, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- Given that the IP who added this sense geolocates to Montreal and tends to add huge volumes of terms in an implausibly wide variety of disciplines, I can't help thinking they may have derived it by extraction from a certain nether orifice... Chuck Entz (talk) 05:37, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- The only reasonable explanation I can think of is in the context of East West Rail, sometimes called the Varsity line or the Oxbridge line, which is an ongoing project to reopen various stretches of railway to create a line linking Oxford to Cambridge (via Bedford and Milton Keynes etc). That wouldn't justify this definition, but it might explain why someone added it. Theknightwho (talk) 22:21, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
- RFV failed Theknightwho (talk) 19:47, 23 July 2022 (UTC)