Notes：
acronym 頭文字;
UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles) カリフォルニア大学ロサンゼルス校;
UF (University of Florida) フロリダ大学;
smoother よりな なめらかにする;
remaining 残っている;
cumbersome長くて複雑な;
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TOEIC and listening exercises often use them. And, if you listen to or read about sports, you’ve probably heard them – acronyms that are pronounced like words – things like UCLA and UF. These are the names of American universities.
We shorten them to make our conversation smoother. Each letter represents a word. The U stands for university.The next letter is often a state name. For example, C represents California. The remaining letters show where the campus is. For example, LA means Los Angeles, so UCLA is the University of California, Los Angeles. We do the same thing in Japanese when we say ShimaDai rather than the more cumbersome Shimane Daigaku.(by Prof. Lieske Carmella)
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