Nomenclature: Orgo or Ochem?

[Supadupafly]

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I feel like I see a pattern; on the east coast it's Orgo and out west it's Ochem? I know this is a ridiculous question, but I'm bored.

 

[Samoa]

we just called it Organic

 

[medstylee]

how about midwest?

everyone here at northwestern calls it orgo.

 

[TheFlash]

Orgo in the mid-Atlantic as well.

 

[jlee9531]

ochem westside bro....

 

[fun8stuff]

midwest: orgo and organic used interchangably

interesting results...

 

[ih8biochem]

We call it orchem here in Hawai`i. A lot of folks think it's a course in pest extermination. 🙄 😎

 

[DrWorkNeverDone]

At my school we call it O Crap cause we always remember last minute to study for the quizzes

 

[SoulRFlare]

organic

 

[Cerberus]

orgo, ochem, organic / south

 

[Supadupafly]

Sorry I didn't include more geographic areas. If you're east of the great divide, call yourself east. If you're west of it, you're west. If you don't know what it is, you're probably east.

 

[UCLAstudent]

O-chem out west.

 

[snapdad]

Both o-chem and orgo in Denver.

 

[carrie198]

O-Chem in Boulder (slightly east of the divide).

 

[DocWannaBe85]

I've heard orgo and O-chem here at VT. I've also heard orgo from Yale.

 

[xerxes]

o-chem in california. orgo always sounded a bit silly to me--like the name of a demon in "the young ones".

 

[lane]

orgo in the southeast

 

[g3pro]

Originally posted by Supadupafly
I feel like I see a pattern; on the east coast it's Orgo and out west it's Ochem? I know this is a ridiculous question, but I'm bored.

whoa! no mention of fly-over country for you elitist coastists?


and why the hell would it be called orgo??? it's not called orgonic chem. there is an 'a' in there. call it orga or call it organic chem.




and you feel like you see a pattern? you feel? dude, people think their ideas, they don't feel them. 🙄

 

[coldchemist]

This has always driven me nuts! In Alaska we referred to it as Ochem, but now that I live in Maryland everybody around me calls it orgo. I've always wondered why the hell anyone would call it orgo--it's not a proper contraction at all. If anything, people should call it orga, not orgo!

That's my story and I'm stickin' to it...😀

I just realized that my post says the same thing as g3pros...

 

[DocWannaBe85]

Originally posted by coldchemist
This has always driven me nuts! In Alaska we referred to it as Ochem, but now that I live in Maryland everybody around me calls it orgo. I've always wondered why the hell anyone would call it orgo--it's not a proper contraction at all. If anything, people should call it orga, not orgo!

That's my story and I'm stickin' to it...😀

I just realized that my post says the same thing as g3pros...

Cold, check your PMs.

 

[evines]

I call organic organic.

 

[DrThom]

We also just called it organic, or whoreganic, depending on who our TA is for the day.

 

[musiclink213]

we call it orgo. i don't care that it's not a proper contraction. that's what i call it, it rolls nicely off our tongue.

 

[evines]

Orgo sounds like a character from the Addams Family.

So what do you call Pchem? physo?

 

[Chrisobean]

ive always called it orgo.
remember that show Felicity on the WB? she went to nyu, and they called it o-chem, and that was the very first time i ever heard it called that.

 

[LauraMac]

orgo... midwest

 

[musiclink213]

Originally posted by evines

So what do you call Pchem? physo?

no, pchem is pchem. i live in NY, i don't know why that is the case. analytical chem is called quant, not a-chem or q-chem. that's because in my school, analytical is called quantitative analytical chemistry, quant for short. not qchem or achem.

 

[doctorcynical]

I call it the O.C. Keep in mind I am from Cali though.

 

[g3pro]

i call it orgallary distillachemistra. i'm from the midwest.

 

[verbalassasin]

OCHEM here in Cali.......Westside!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[group_theory]

Originally posted by musiclink213
no, pchem is pchem. i live in NY, i don't know why that is the case. analytical chem is called quant, not a-chem or q-chem. that's because in my school, analytical is called quantitative analytical chemistry, quant for short. not qchem or achem.

Hmmm, analytical chem was referred to as "anal chem"

In general, students at Penn/Princeton/MIT/Yale use orgo.