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Honey, when I read that I about DIED laughing! :D

Thanks for my study break entertainment! ;)

is this public information, or are u makin a joke?

and why do orgs change their names? one local on our campus was alpha something something and i think inthe early 90s they switched to theta phi beta. why is it? like a merger or something?

(edit) never mind, im reading that it was in honor of APD fraternity. but whats the sense in that?

Well Sigma Nu then... let me guess :D
(this is NOT the real meaning, you'll never hear that from me;) )

Sigma... that's easy, the sum of something.

Nu.. One of my Jewish friends told me that there's a Yiddish expression that sounds like "Nu" that means "nothing" (feel free to correct me).

So Sigma Nu is the sum of nothing.

Well this would be backward... but I guess then Phi Sigma Sigma is the "sum of perfection" :D Not bad...... not the true meaning... but hey sounds good to me !!

umm lol i know you got those meanings from dictionary.com but according to my pledge book... and 75years of tradition... they're wrong lol i don'tk now from off the topof my head- but i know that alpha- father
beta-bed.... and uh its 1 am and i can't remember most of them
zeta-edge
theta- this
iota-pie
kappa- kill
lambda- land
sigma- sit
chi- rich

those are waht i could remember but you catch my drift- one of my sisters still has her pledge book and is going to email the rest to me- so i'll give you guys a complete list of what i thought they meant anyway.... i know that in latin- nu sigma chi... is nike sun charity (but its not pronounced like that) and it means victory through loveliness.... (hence my quote)

but sairose- to answer your question- i had nooo clue what the greek alphabet meant or what most of them were except like delta in math class lol

WTF? Obviously those aren't real meanings, but they are what they stand for in math/engineering/etc. Your meanings are really random and seem more like a pronounciation key than anything.

I could be wrong, but I am guessing she is saying that her local chapter of tri-delta has had 3 name changes, so in a way, if delta = change (as of dictionary.com) it's like their local chapter has changed 3 times and they happen to now be a chapter of tri-delta.

i highly doubt that is the meaning behind the national organization.. I wouldn't know, because I'm obviously not a tri-delta :)

honeychile -- I almost spit kool-aid all over my computer screen when I read your post!!! lol

OK DeltaBetaBaby, what does "Xi" stand for in math/engineering? Anything?

I've got Phi Sigma Pi meaning "the golden ratio is the sum of 3.14...."

Not quite. :p

I didn't know, don't feel bad. Since we were new on campus, it never dawned on me that they would mean something...

My stupid moment was that I thought that we didn't have anything "secret" that everything was so open to the world that I was a little bummed during my new member period... I like drama... but now as I sit through initaition after initiation I get more and more out of it. And I've sat through my share over the last 4 years.

OK, so I looked up Tau on Dictionary.com and here's what it said (there was more but you had to subscribe or something):
TAU: An elementary particle of the lepton family, having a mass about 3,550 times that of the electron, a negative electric charge, and a mean lifetime of 3 × 10 to the (-13) seconds.

Taking that into account, AST is the First (or beginning) Sum of an elementary particle of the lepton family.

I love being a lepton. The negative charge is only for a short while!!
:D
PsychTau

alpha- father

beta- bed

gamma- go sing

delta- do

epsilon- met

zeta- edge

eta- prey

theta- this

iota- pie

kappa- kill

lambda- land

mu- men

nu- no

xi (there is no meaning)

omicron- obey

pi- pet

rho- rug

sigma- sit

tau- tell

upsilon (there is no meaning)

phi- graphic

chi- rich

psi- hipp

omega- tone

these are the real meanings from our pledge books- one of my sisters just sent them to me... and obviously they were randon because that was all i could remember at the time.....

That looks like a secret code or something! I like CHI MU!! :D
Does it say in your pledge book where these meanings come from? What did you do with these meanings? Do the other groups on your campus have the same list?

I've never seen anything like that...looks like a local thing (but I'm not a greek scholar....)

Interesting, nonetheless...
PsychTau

i'm not sure where they came from- but they've been around forever- and we are local- so idk- i'm asking some of my sisters to find out from alumni- maybe one of the founders was into greek or soemthing- i know what you mean about the meanings- i guess ijust never questioned it before... that was pretty stupid o fme- but oh well- i'll let you know what i come up with

Alpha Sigma Phi - First Sum of the Golden Ratio... :)

Obviously, I'm not giving away the REAL meaning behind our secret motto. It is safe to say that the translated words of our motto appear in everyday writing and speech (as are most mottoes). Only an initiate of Alpha Sigma Phi can derive the significance of these words into our secret motto.

Actually these are keys to pronunciation of Greek letters using common English words.

xi = as in 'xylophone' ('zie' is the common pronunciation, but 'zee' is closer to actual Greek)
upsilon = as in 'oops'