Talk:Oxbridge

RFV discussion: May–July 2022
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)
 * ah, right. — Sgconlaw (talk) 09:29, 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, 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)