Not in my experience. The confusion with Phi Mu comes when people try to shorten our name (a la "Lambda Chi") by dropping the Alpha.

There's also the nickname part: Kappas to NPC people are Kappa Kappa Gamma; to historically black fraternities, Kappa Alpha Psi. (I think!)


I think a better word than scramble is confused.

Or Sigma Sigma Sigma and Phi Beta Sigma. My favorite though is when I initiated into Tri Sigma and my friend in Phi Beta Sigma was like "we're both Sigmas now!" It was cute. :)

Correct. Most people can tell by the conversation which Kappa is being referenced so I doubt there is much confusion.

When I was in college, people would say "KKG" or "KappaKappaGamma" (very quickly) and never said "Kappa" in reference to Kappa Kappa Gamma. And we didn't even have a Kappa Alpha Psi chapter on the campus.

When I hear "Kappa" I think Kappa Alpha Psi and the people I talk to (in real life) are always talking about Kappa Alpha Psi when they say "Kappa."

I doubt there is any confusion there. It's all about the context. LOL.

Sigma means Phi Beta Sigma to everyone (in real life) I talk about Greekdom with.

There is also Phi Kappa Psi. One of my brothers was a Phi Psi. Between Pi Phi and Phi Psi, I'm surprized my non-Greek mother managed.

One of my sisters accidentally bought a Kappa Sigma window cling for her little. In her defense, they are inside application, so they are printed backwards.

There has been some confusion on my campus over the two that happen to share the first two letters, SAE and SAI. Though SAI is never officially given a hall (there are no houses for sororities), we tend to block together when possible and display our letters outside our door. That happened pretty strongly this year. Our neighbor hall? SAE.

It'd be even more confusing if you had Sigma Alpha on your campus, the agricultural interest sorority.

I'm sorry, this made me lol. My school has chapters of both Kappa Sigma and Sigma Kappa. More than once, a PNM, asked where she's preffing, has said, "Alpha Phi and Kappa Sigma." hee hee

There was a thread on this a while back, about GLOs with similar letters and the confusion that often resulted. Kappa Sigma and Sigma Kappa; Alpha Epsilon Phi and Alpha Epsilon Pi; Phi Sigma Kappa, Phi Kappa Sigma, Phi Kappa Theta; Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Sigma Phi Epsilon; Theta Chi and Theta Xi - all these GLOs have or have had chapters at my school, and confusion did occur.

You'd be surprised; scrambling can happen in many more ways than just the letters themselves.

For someone inexperienced with Greek Letters, it's just "Triangles"

As for my own fraternity, Triangle, I have been asked by several non-Greeks if I was a "Tri-Delt" when I wear my "letter." It's basically a T inscribed inside a Delta (kind of looks like /T\). It gets very annoying.

At UCal Berkeley, there's an Alpha Delta Pi and an Alpha Delta Phi, as well as an Alpha Delta Chi. Haha, talk about confusion. I stayed at the Alpha Delta Phi chapter house for a few days over spring break last year and we certainly got people knocking on the door asking for Alpha Delta Pi.

Cal student here. The reality of the situation is that we just have a local nickname for Alpha Delta Phi: AquaDelt. That's because their chapter house is the only one on campus with a swimming pool.