i get some people that ask me what AXA is. But i dont understande how you could get AXA from LCA.

my letters are Sigma Lambda Gamma, so I ALWAYS get, why does your shirt say EAR??? (a few of the greeks on this campus do it on purpose, but some people are SERIOUS)

Ah...you have to love parents. The Dad of a Dee Gee girl that I knew always called DG "Triangle Hook". Back in the day, they had sweattops that said, "I'm a DG Dad".

So her clever Daddy was pointing at the pictures and saying I'M A TRIANGLE HOOK DAD!"

That's so funny because my initials ARE "kkr!"

What I have heard is that if Phi has a greek letter that starts with a vowel in front of it then it is pronounced "phee" (ex Alpha Phi) but if it starts with a consonant or if there is another greek letter behind it then it is pronounced "phi" (ex Phi Delta Theta or Sigma Phi Epsilon) ... I heard this from an Alpha Phi ... so I assume it is true.

Also being in Tri-Sigma I hear a lot of " Are you in triple E? " and also it is prnounced as "EEEEEEE!" I find it very humorous. I think its funny that non-greeks dont know what a sigma is. they all think it is an E.

You, and many others, assume incorrectly. This is an old Greek urban legend. ;)

Yes, sometimes the pronunciation of the sounds that letters represent changes based on what is around them -- "C" is typically pronounced "s" before i or e and "k" before a, o or u. But "fee" (or "fie") is the name of the letter F -- the sound is simply "ff." The idea that the pronunciation of the name of F changes beased on whether a vowel is in front of it is the equivalent of saying that the letter F is called "eff" if a vowel precedes it "eeff" if a consonant precedes it.

It's very simple -- "Fee" is the Greek pronunciation, "Fie" is the American Anglicized pronunciation. Most GLOs use the Amercian Anglicized pronunciations for Greek letters, but some GLOs, such as Alpha Phi, use the Greek pronunciations, at least in some instances such as their names.

In a graduate level psyc statistics class list night my teacher was talking about how much he loves statistics (yuck). When he was working on his PhD he was so involved in it so everything came back to statistics for him.

In statistics S means "sum of" and N means "number"

He laughed when he saw a Sigma Nu with the letters on his car. All he could think was "wow that guy loves statistics too" A woman in class said "In college I was on Sum of the Number Rose Court." All of the greeks in class laughed while the rest looked at us dumbfounded.

LOL I love stories like that.

Some chapters hate being called OX. Some chapters sell girls t shirts and panties that say I want some OX in my BOX using Thetas. I'll post a link later. Our chapter has never been called OX. We did the Rho Chi on campus so everyone knows who we are. Theta Chi.

i can't decide which is more annoying but i hear all of these

triple A..as in the car club

and the triangle refrence

Hell I have had my letter mistaken by another greek before.

Two years ago I was out at a Remington Park OKC for the Kentucky Derby wearing my letters, Sigma Tau Gamma (STG). In a crowded section of the park, a guy came up to me shook my hand and introduced himself. I thought it was a member from another chapter in Oklahoma, but about telling me his name where he went to school and which horse he was going for he realized that he misread my shirt and thought I was a Sigma Pi (SP).

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This is hilarious! I've gotten "What is OIM?" by a random person at the grocery store.

This is kind of random, but it has to do with letters. I'm a Pi Phi and every time I see our letters, I always think of N.B.O. It's from the book "Summer Sisters" and means Never Be Ordinary. Sometimes I refer to Pi Phi as NBO in my head, lol.

That book is the sh*t. :p

flashback ... Isnt that what wishinhopin named her local?

ahhah i was thinking the same thing!

Last night when my family was watching the Texas/Michigan game, my dad thought he saw some fraternity letters and couldn't figure out what they were. He kept saying it was Chi Alpha something, and I couldn't figure it out. I finally realized he was looking at a shirt that said TEXAS and he had only seen half of it. He's still learning about this whole Greek Life thing since his school didn't have it ;)

For real!
Edited because I didn't realize I was in the wrong thread!

I was wearing KD flip-flops at work one day (I'm a day camp counselor over the summers) and one of my girls said "My mommy has a shirt with K-Triangle on it!" Turns out her mom is a KD alumna!

The year I rushed my Rho Gamma told us that some girl told her that it was cute that she made a Greek letter shirt for her major. Her major was public relations, and the girl thought her shirt said "Pr" instead of rho gamma!

I have some Tri-Delt friends who went to a movie wearing letters, and some guy walked up to them and said "What's with you guys? Do you really like triangles? Are you in some kind of triangle club?"

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Not a misreading, but funny nonetheless...

Last week, I was participating in an in-person session a for work related training program (it's long term so I've developed relationships with my training peers). The gentleman I sat next to for a two-day intensive workshop is a Que. We chatted at length and eventually caught the attention of the Delta sitting to my other side. The three of us hit it off and were "partners" for the rest of the training period.

During the second day, the Que surprised me with a little gift: an Omega lapel pin, because I'm a Quette (wife of an Omega). He told me to wear it with pride and be recognized. :) So, I thanked him and went ahead and put it on as a regular pin since I didn't have a lapel. At the end of the day, I was walking out and another participant stopped me and said, "You're a mentor!"

I had no idea what he was talking about until the Que told me that the National Mentoring Partnership had chosen the Omega as their symbol.

when it was on my car a toll booth operator asked me

"What is Zero M?" (cos some people write 0 with a strike through it!)

Other sisters have gotten "I-O-M"

Some people just don't even know what to say...Whatever, as long as they're not asking me about OM!

Isn't it considered hazing to make NMs learn the Greek alphabet? :rolleyes: Good grief!

I was wearing a windbreaker with my letters on it when I went to vote (I was still in college at the time). Obviously, the gamma was covered up somehow. Someone asked, "KKK?" I had to pull the windbreaker taut and said, "No, Kappa Kappa Gamma."

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It wasn't me, and it was a professional fraternity (Phi Alpha Delta), but one of the girls always has people ask her what sorority she's in when wearing her letters. She says PAD fraternity. It never fails that they will respond with no, PAD sorority. It drives her nuts, considering that she would know whether she is in a sorority or professional fraternity.

No one has ever asked what mine are, mainly because A triangle Pi is kinda obvious that it's not something else.

Haha...my MOM called me a Kappa Alpha shortly after I got in.

I hope she was joking...

not really spelling, but my aunt pronounces ADPi like Eta Pi, and i can't get her to stop.


oh oh, but a friend from high school joined Sigma Nu, and he said when he wore his shirts when he went home his friends asked him "Summation of N?" to which he told them they were bigger nerds than him.

i usually get "whats triangle palmtree or delta palmtree?" or people mistake me for a delta tau delta. i know the upsilon can sometimes look like a T but FFS people theres no extra delta after it. another one i get is when i wear letters with the upsilon being a Y. like "whats change in Y?" or "triangle y" and a few times at? at what? or ay pronounced "I" like in chi.

man I get "E-N" all the time.

Actually I have heard of T.T. Boi (Boy), aka Philip Rivera, so (I think) I know where you're coming from. :D

People used to ask me what R E E was. Hence my username lol.

"Also known as what?" People can be such dorks!!

I didn't read the whole thread, but Sheila, did you tell the one about the Alumnae PHC President who announced us as "Alpha Epsilon Alpha"?

I was thinking the same thing !! I happen to be a member of STD...lol...but happy to report that I don't have any!

lol...If I had a nickle...lol

one of friends in another sorority told me how one of her kids she watches asked what "triangle x" was since she was wearing a Delta Chi shirt (it is her boyfriends fraterity)..i thought that was sooo cute!!

then we went on to try some of the other greek orgs on campus as if a kid was saying it...turns out we think little kids would say Chi Omega would be "x horseshoe" and AOII would be "A O table" lol!

my younger sister is a freshman in college, but doesn't know the greek alphabet, so when i was asking her what sororities she has on campus, she actually said, x horseshoe for chio when trying to describe it.

luckily as a ZTA, i don't really get funny stares for my letters.

Good thread!

Brings back memories of spring break in Daytona FL (looooong ago) and a cute but very drunk non-greek boy said "Hey, that says Triangle Circle Square" thought that was pretty funny and asute, albeit incoherent.

This reminds me of the ebay seller who labeled an ATO badge, "Alfa Tau Ohm".

I get that or I get the question from my kids "Why ya wearing all the E's Ms. D?"