JV, jayvee or junior varsity?

I've taken to using jayvee because I saw a lot of U.S. papers referring to the high school junior teams that way.

Am I out to lunch on this? Should I go back to junior varsity or JV, which is how I knew it when I played high school athletics? Is it just an American thing (I'm in Canada)?

I'm getting a couple readers calling me a total idiot for using it but am not sure how to respond. Unfortunately, my gut feeling is that they're right.

 

I always used junior varsity on first ref, JV afterward.

 

Ditto here.

 

Around here, the coaches call it "B-team"

 

Yeah, also known as "teams we don't touch with a 10-foot pole."

Thanks for the responses. Only thing I'm now curious about is why anybody uses jayvee in the first place. Is it because it's a phonetical way of saying JV so that you don't have extra capital letters sitting around?

 

Jayvee is slang. Use only if you use ain't in your text.

 

I am unfamiliar with this concept.

 

Bingo.

Jayvee strikes me as very 1960s. Like the jayvee harriers or something.

 

Yes, junior varsity or JV.

Jayvee? Do you use "jew-coe," too?

 

That's thinclads to you.

 

I'll grapple you over that one, Coffeeman.

 

After that, you guys can take out to the grid or the cage ...