I've never heard anyone think my letters spelled something different.

One time though, the chapter president at the time and I were joking around about people who didn't know the Greek alphabet and might think our letters said T T B O I.

Yeah, you had to be there...that or maybe it's just seems funnier in my head :D

We get ROB a lot too - especially from parents.

my letters are Nu Sigma Chi (i don't feel like busting out the symbol font)

people think it spells NEX (as in next....)
they see the sigma- and think my shirt says SEX
we're known as N E X (which drives me crazy- but its been around too long to banish it)

our lettes on the house were pulled off by one of the frats- and so it spelled VEX and then the rest of the N was gone- so apparently we were Sigma Chi (and a sophomore was overheard by a sister saying- oh there is a party at the old sigma chi house... )

i've had people prounounce phi "phee"

Maybe they're confused with Alpha Phi? hmm :confused: Completely random but when I was pledging I remember being SO confused by Alpha Phi. They weren't rushing girls when I went through rush so I didn't hear about then until I got into the greek system. I remember going over the Greek Alphabet in my head thinking, where is there a "PHEE"?? Alright I'm done with the randomness now... :D

When I was in my local, Delta Chi Epsilon, everyone thought it said "AXE".

(So much so that there were numerous street signs from Axe Avenue hanging in sisters' dorm rooms...)

Mine is obvious. You can just look at my letters and imagine the sort of questions I get asked:p

yea theta nu xi looks like the word "one"
i always thought that was so creative cuz it goes well with ur purpose!:)

My pharmacist was an ATO in the 50s and kept telling people that he wasn't in a fraternity but they were produce people... apples, tomatoes, and oranges. That was at UF

LOL!
 

I get "A-O-N" a lot, but the first time I heard it was from a greek, and he was serious!! :rolleyes:

Also, some people have said our letters look like AVON (as in the make-up line), and others say it looks like NOV upside down. Someone once said "you must have been founded in November!"

Some random guy stopped one of my sisters on the street a few months ago when she was wearing letters, saying, "Hey, are you an Alpha Triangle Pi? You guys rock!" Ok, buddy...

I've also heard somebody refer to us as Alpha Triangle Table.

I get the, "What's with the upside-down V, O, and a pitchfork?"

I'm Russian and some Greek letters look like Russian ones. One time I went into the Russian grocery store in my neighborhood wearing my letters and the salesclerk wanted to know what my shirt said because the Kappa and the Lambda are the same as the Russian K and L letters but there is no Psi in Russian. He thought it was an acronym for something and that I've just been in America for so long that I started to forget the Russian alphabet and make up letters that were never actually in it...

Chi exchange... I got it (psych-stats here)!

Our brother house on campus was Delta Tau Delta, but we always referred to them as the Triangle-T-Triangles. Delta joke, I guess ;)

My favorite one is when my non-Greek boyfriend and I discuss organizations. He's a math doctoral student, so he pronounces the letters differently than I do.

My friends and I still call the Delts this...my ex boyfriend is a Delt and he just *loved* it when we talked about their house as the Triangle T Triangle house. ;) It started freshman year though when none of us knew the greek letters, but we kept it around just b/c we thought it was funny and we're dorks. :cool:

I've had people say to me "C.I.A.?" or "Why are you wearing a C.I.A. shirt?" Ummmm, last time I checked, a S looks NOTHING like a C!!!!!

People have also thought my letters were "E I A". But I guess when you have things like "My Big, Fat, GrSSk Wedding", people are going to thing that a sigma is an E.

@ the doctor's office
 

I went to the doctor's for a check up and I was wearing my letters. Passing through all the nurses they said, "Do those letters mean No Known Allergies?" That was a moment...

This one takes the cake for Beta:

http://www.collegehumor.com/img/i/img_0918.w492.jpg

My husband suggests these two:

Phi Mu Alpha, Kappa Sigma chapter, they made into OMARS. 'Cause a K and an R look so much alike.

Then you had all the engineers who were thinking "Force times Mass equals Acceleration" ...

zz-kai,
If I'm not mistaken, I think that is the Beta house up at UCSB. I had a couple of friends that were brothers up there.

Not sure, but it looks like a CA house for sure....

I was at a fraternity rush event a few years ago with my (now ex) boyfriend. We were talking to a rushee, when he looked at my shirt and said, "Oh, you're an ADP?" (Instead of ADPi). Yeah, he didn't get it too wrong, but we could tell he was just trying to look like he knew what he was talking about to impress the brothers. It was kinda funny. :)

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I am so GUILTY of that... I am used to seeing it as AON that even though I know the alphabet by heart its easier for me to think it that way.. I am so bad sorry :(

We have been reffered as O.D.

As a member of Sigma Sigma Sigma, I usually get "are you a member of EEEEEEEE?" Gotta love it! I don't get offended- I find it kind of humorus.

When I went to get a chain for my lavalier, the lady asked "are those your initials?"

ok, even if my initials were "kkr" (they're ccg by the way) the K's wouldn't be capitalized and the "r" be the only thing that was a lowercase....

Silly walmart lady.

Zeta Psi
What does a z and a pitchfork mean, or one time I got is that some kind of australian symbol?? Not sure where the second one came from.

I've had someone think the X was an equals sign, and that my shirt read "A = D" as some weird math equation.

Some of my friends called the Zeta Psi house "Zeta Pitchfork" :) We also had a chapter of Theta Chi, that kept getting read as OX - they went with it, and called their rush "OX HUNT".

I was a chapter founder of AEPhi at a school that had had a chapter of AEPi for a long time. I kept getting asked when I'd become a little sister of AEPi, or who my boyfriend in AEPi was, or when AEPi had gone coed. You would think that at an engineering school, people could tell the difference between pi and phi. :rolleyes:

Before I was an AEPhi, I was in a local sorority called Sigma Iota Phi. People thought my letters spelled "sip". It didn't help that intramural sports teams from GLOs got a 2 or 3 letter designation based on the Greek letters for use on schedules and rosters, and our code was SIP. "Yeah, we're playing the Sips today..."

It was very common for student organizations other than GLOs to "adopt" Greek letters and make up lettered shirts (e.g. Lecture Series Committee = LSC = LSC. One group, the Student Information Processing Board (SIPB), had adopted the letters SPB. I used to get "Sigma Iota Phi... ohhh, you must be in SIPB!"

My favorite guesses come from e-bay.

Some badge sellers who have no idea what they are offering have some pretty silly listings. Like on our badge, the name of our patron goddess, Themis, is written in greek, upper and lower cases. The descriptions for that can be a hoot. :D

It does make me wonder, do none of these people have a dictionary? The greek alphabet is there, and easy to check. Anyway, when you read what they have them listed as, and then see what the letters really are... makes you wonder! ;)

When I got my first lettered shirt I came home and my mom looked at it funny and finally said
"I thought you joined AGD?"
I replied "I did!"
to which she said
"Then why does it say A R Triangle?"

My mom didnt go to college, btw.

I get I OEE a lot......

and TBE.... Tee Beee

Funny thing is, my TBS class is Beta Epsilon.

I know a lot of Theta Chi's that call themselves the Oxes.... well it should be oxen, thats why it was weird for me to type "Oxes"

Theta is abbreviated in our Res Life office as TPG. Once in a while, I refer to it as such, and my aunt once asked me if it stood for "Toilet Paper Girls".....

....not quite....

We all know that Sigma Delta Tau has it pretty bad with the EAT similarity (people in the past have in fact wrote me on our house under the letters), but when saying the letters, sdt, often times people mess up and call us STD's.

I always get "hey, what's ARA stand for?"

Sarah, at least your mom was smart enough to realize that there is a difference between a capital A and a triangle... stupid Tennesseans :rolleyes:

LOL. They used to FREAK if you called them "Ox" to their face or called it the "Ox House...."

Ali, are you going to ALF?

It really kills me when Greeks don't know the Greek alphabet!!!

There's a professsor here that has, for the past... well, probably since we were founded here, called us the "QM's". He knows what it really is of course, but it's kinda cute. Last year during recruitment, we had camo shirts and he kept telling everyone he was seeing a QM army everywhere.

Hehe, one sorority on our campus is Sigma Alpha Tau ( Think about that for a minute), but it intentionally spells the word Eat, after the intentions of their founders. We also have Theta Nu (not to be confused with Theta Nu Xi), but people call it the ON house..jokingly saying they're going to take the Nu off and put up two FF's one day. My house gets T-Triangle a lot. Or TA which is REALLY embarassing. My sisters joked that it would be hillarious of someone stuck Sigma in front of Tau Delta...the STD house. Stupid greek joke. We also have Eta Phi Mu (which looks like HIM) which I'm not sure was an accident, they were founded as a christian men's fraternity, and their nickname is Jonda, as in Jonathan and David from the Bible). Poor Zeta Phi, they get asked if they're related to Zeta Phi Beta a LOT, even though their colors are nothing a like and nor are their members. People made up their nicknames from their letters too...Sigma Delta Phi= Sphinx. But people don't make the connection between what everyone calls them and their letters, which is hillarious. "I just came from the Sphinx house, now I'm going to Sigma Delta Phi."

Sigma Tau Delta is an English honor fraternity. :p