I had a really hard time remembering the Greek alphabet also. It might be helpful to make up some kind of song that would trigger your memory. That's how my pledges made 100's on their quizzes.

Ooops! I didn't realize you already had given that advice!

When I was a pledge of another Fraternity, I found if you did it in 3's it came easier. Alpha, Beta, Gamma Pause Delta, Epslilon Zeta ETC. The mind is a wonderful computor unless it has a glitch then is not worth a Damn as Boat anchor!!!



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Tom Earp LX Z#1
Pittsburg State U. (Kansas)

Free Greek Alphabet song
 

http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=41885

Greek Alphabet song!!!

An easy way to memorize all the letters to a tune you already know.

HAHAHA. I would venture to say that they don't want to be called Phi Moo.

My sixth grade teacher was from Louisiana, and we learned the Greek alphabet both forwards and backwards. I would just love to know which sorority she was in! We learned the Greek alphabet to two different songs. On Bid Night, I shocked the sisters by already knowing the alphabet!

And I'd venture to say that you are right hehe. On my campus, we say it "Fi Mew". I don't know about elsewhere...

well...

Iota Kap a Lambda

and

Pyro.

High school math and science, people... didn't anybody else use a lowercase "mu" in those classes? "Mew" is definitely the standard pronunciation.

Honeychile, while I was in school, I had an LC that moved to LA but I don't think she taught 6th grade. She's now got a PHD in counseling, I think.

For writing it, try this: ( I can't get the greek letters to work, but write them out in rows of four like this:)

ABGD Alpha Beta Gamma Delta
EZHQ E-Z HO
IKLM I KAM
NXOP NEON (the E is a stretch with the xi, but it works)
RSTU PETY
FCYW Phi Chi Psi Omega



So you can remember how they look that way for the order, too :)

Learn with a matchbook.

http://www.xanthi.ilsp.gr/filog/ch1/....asp?vletter=1


This website has the CORRECT way to pronounce the Greek alphabet.

It even has sound :)

I leaned from this:

I went shopping at Alpha Beta Gamma and met Delta, Epsilon, Zeta while there. To my surprise I ran into Eta, Theta and Iota doing some shopping of their own. Kappa and Lambda came to assist with all the groceries and could not resist those delightful sisters that go by the name of Mu and Nu.

The sisters loaded up their cars and headed for the meeting at Xi, Omicron and Pi's home. A social was to be given for their new found friends of Rho, Sigma and Tau. But, to the sisters' surprise they would not remain if their sisters from across the Bay in Upsilon did not come along. They did come forth after picking up friends in Phi and Chi around the corner from Psi and down the street from Omega.

probably the best post ive seen from EW.

how the freek you remember that?

It's correct if you are using the Greek pronunciation and interested in speaking Greek. Anglicized pronunciation is widely accepted with GLOs, though some groups, like Alpha Phi and Alpha Xi Delta opt to use the Greek pronunciation. Both are fine.

We were taught the greek alphabet as a song when we were pledges (just like kindergarteners learn the ABCs w/a song). I guess I assumed everyone learned it that way (like there's "one" greek alphabet song the way there's "one" ABC song), woops, I guess not! I remember very few songs off the top of my head, but I can still sing that greek alphabet song as I bet almost all of my chapter sisters could.

Check out this thread:

http://greekchat.com/gcforums/showth...ight=incentive

has anyone seen the butterfly effect? theres a scene in there where ashton kutcher spits off the greek alphabet really fast. They way i learned the greek alphabet was trying to mimic that and go as fast as i could. at first i could only get as far as alpha beta gamma delta. then eventually i would progress a few letters farther. but now i can do the whole thin in like 7 seconds. still can't play the match game with out getting burned though.

I learned it via a song and fall into that if I'm not trying to say it quickly, but by now I can spit it out as fast as I want. I was never "tested" with a match but I tried it for fun and I can get it out twice before I wave it out. Then again I like playing with fire. :p

My record is 6 times. Not that I ever played with fire. Or held a match. Nope, it wasn't me who held the match.


PS I Never knew how to use a match or a lighter until I was about 32 lol. I was too chicken!

bahahahaha. at least get halfway through, or to epsilon. sheesh.

The fastest way to remember it.

I can say it absurdly fast now.

hey, c'mon i was just a pledge then...

the other day some of the guys were racing to see who the fastest in the chapter was while still being able to annunciate clearly.

20+ years later, so can I.

Not that I . . . well, never mind.

Pronunciation
Alpha- Al-fa
Beta- Bay-ta
Gamma-Gam-ma
Delta- Delt-a
Epsilon- Ep-se-lon
Zeta- zayta
Eta- Eyta
Theta- Theyta
Iota- Eyeohta

Kappa- Kappa
Lambda- Lamb-duh
Mu- Mooo
Nu- New
Xi- Zee
Omicron- Om-i-croun
Pi- Pie
Rho- Ro
Sigma- Sig-ma
Tau- Taw
Upsilon- Up-si-lawn
Phi- Fi
Chi- Kai
Psi-Sigh
Omega-O-mega

yoop-silon. or if you must, oop-silon.

There's really no point in posting the pronunciation because there are a few letters (like Xi and Phi) that some of us are going to say different no matter what.

What is that? I've actually heard a couple pronunciations- O- micron or Om- icron I think most commonly I hear the emphasis on the O sound.

Likewise with Iota.

We don't say "mooo," and I'm pretty sure no Phi Mu does either. It's "myew" to us.

I was told the exact opposite!:p

If you listen to some of the old recordings of Stella talking, she pronounces Omicron totally differently from the way I was taught. Instead of a long O she says it with a short o and the end is different too.

Oh, and I learned the alphabet via song, but I can say it through twice before the match is too close for comfort- I impressed my nieces and nephew with that one on Thanksgiving.

I have never heard any of those recordings and would LOVE to....AOII needs to spend some money restoring them to digital recordings and putting them on the website! Hmmm....maybe a donation to the Foundation for that purpose is in order!

BTW...is it like Ah-mi-crin?

YES- That's it! I remember one of our traveling consultants had a tape of one of them that she had us listen to- it was one of the Fireside chats recorded at one of the conventions in either the 40s or 50s.

Interesting. I don't think I've ever heard Omicron pronounced with a long O sound at the beginning. I've always heard the initial O pronounced like the o it hot.

Trivia for the day:

Omicron and Omega literally mean "little (micro) O" and "big (mega) O."

Ha! I hear it pronounced Ohh-micron more frequently than anything else!

I made this video for the girls in my chapter. Did I share it on here before? I dunno, but this thread is a good place: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByLl8Gok9o4

Everyone in my pledge classed loved this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUrZHF_WBeI&NR=1
even though almost every letter is mispronounced and the beat is terrible. It is catchy so beware.

Is that you, Lucy? We used a similar version, using a Jamaican/island beat, letting the series of letters higher for each set, but returning to the original pitch at the end. We also used the A-D-Pi (let me hear it now) 3X, each time singing higher, then Let's Go Greek 3X, also singing higher with each set.

We originally sang it like that for a Beach Theme party, and decided to keep it.