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re: Ole Miss....why not Ol' Miss????

Posted on 1/31/13 at 1:07 pm to
Posted by OBReb6
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Member since Jul 2010
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Posted on 1/31/13 at 1:07 pm to
One professor a while back guessed that that might have been how the name originated. No one really knows. The Mississippi River is known as the "ole miss", or they could have just been shortening the term "ole mississippi", which makes the most sense by far.
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