Following day received their semi-official acronym buster document; bigger than all the Harry Potter books combined.
Great way to keep people out.
Theres a ‘University of the Highlands and Islands’ known as UHI for short. I did some work with them back in the day when they weren’t yet an official university yet but a ‘project to become a university’ – strictly speaking the were “the University of the Highlands and Islands Project’.
During this time they were simply known as ‘UHI’ but I was given a lengthy document explaining how they intended to become a university, and that the were offering university level education, the ‘U’ in ‘UHI’ didn’t stand for ‘University’. And the organisation must not be referred to as a university (even though it was the same as a university in practice).
It then went into into further detail – its to be written ‘UHI’ not ‘U.H.I’ as that would imply the letters stood for something. That was followed pronunciation guidelines – it wasn’t ‘the UHI’, just ‘UHI’ and it was pronounced ‘You hatch Eye’ on ‘You-high’ or ‘uh-hee’ 🙂