A lot of people have asked me what ONE means and have no idea that we are even a greek organization because they just think that it is the word ONE that I am wearing around everywhere, and then you always get, "Aaww how cute, what a cute idea!" (Kind of annoying.)

My sister Elizabeth made me a pillow with a bunch of DG stuff cross-stitched on the front for my birthday right before I pledged (I'd gotten a bid in the spring). I took it home and everyone in my very-non-Greek family was asking me what Triangle-R was. :rolleyes:

I've been asked what A O T T means.

I read the post about people being confused about Alpha Phi pronouncing Phi as Phee. My husband is half-Greek...not by initiation but by birth to a man who immigrated from Greece. He says we pronounce many of the greek letters wrong. AOII should be Alpha Omicron Pee not Pie. Phi is pronounced Phee since there is no "I" sound in the greek language. Iota is Yota. I could go on but I won't!

I'm an A-O, A-O Cutie Cutie Pi!
And I'll be one til the day, the day I die!

i was in my campus greek life office picking up greek pages for my chapter and our package had a post it note on it with greek letters Delta Psi instead of Delta Upsilon. thanks asu greek life office for knowing which fraternities you have.

im from sigma lambda gamma and i get "wut's EAR or EAT?"

ha... annoyin!

Yes.

Ditto Soror!

Is it bad that I have They Might Be Giants "Triangle Man" running through my head now???

At my chapter of Delta Tau Delta, we some times referred to it as Shelta Tau Shelta; Delts sometimes call the house their shelter. Delts also have a song "Delt Shelter". I know, I know, kind of geeky.

TEP has been listed in newspaers and all sorts of things as Tau Epsilon Pi even by sororities and IFC

This little girl asked my friend who is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi was his girlfriend named Kay when he had on his shirt.

I like this post. See, I used to teach NT Greek and we went over this stuff in differentiating between the ancient and Modern Greek pronunciations. In my Fraternity, you can tell who are real "old school" brothers (made in the '40s or older) by the way they pronounce Omega in the name of the Fraternity. Not "O-may-ga" but "O-me-ga." This is in accordance with proper pronunciation.

a few years back my pledge bro was walking though campus wearing a Sigma Nu belt buckle he made and this guy thought that his name was Ian

Sigma Nu
 

Have had other greeks that have seen stuff on the internet and think Sigma Nu stands for Sons of Napoleon.


OK

most non greek people call us Nu Epsilon Chi (N E X) rather than Nu Sigma Chi.... we're used to it but its still annoying... (we usually call ourselves nu sig)

If I ever get asled why Pi K A's are called pikes again I will kill something, lol

I went to Jamba Juice with some of my sisters this past Thursday, and the girl at the register looked at my letters and said "how you say that?" I told her it was pronounced "Alpha Fee."

This was her response:

"Never heard of them...only heard of Delta and AKA" Ok, so pronounced AKA like "akka" I stood there dumfounded because 1) it took me a little while to register who the f-- "akka" was, and 2) that she actually said "akka"

My husband is an AFD. A bunch of years back, they had a pledge from Greece. He had to unlearn the proper Greek alphabet, in order to learn the collegiate one. "PHI" is apparently phee when pronounced correctly. Mu & nu are me-uuu and ne-uuu, not moo and nu. Beta is beeta. I like the collegiate way better!

Anywho, mine don't get pronounced as a word, but are often mistaken for AET. I get the "why do you only use regular letters?" um....it's a sigma! and regardless - it's an alpha & a tau, too!

Funny Names...
 

I went to the store the other day and this kid that I went to high school with was ringing me out. He saw that my shirt had my letters (Phi Mu) on it and it said "Penn State" underneath it because Panhellenic made each chapter buy these shirts for events so we are all uniform. He looked down at my shirt and said-"What's Eye-Ohme"? I had no clue what he was talking about until I realized he was looking at my chest. I had to hold back laughter when I was like, "Um...it's Phi Mu-it's my sorority at Penn State"...He then proceeded to ask me which comes first a Bachelor's degree, Associate's or Master's degree. I was stunned by his questions and just answered them but, all the while I couldn't help but, wonder how someone could graduate high school (even if barely) and not know the order of the degrees....All together-I was stunned by the situation..."EYE-OHME"..honestly....

ATA and AYA, ATA pops up way more though

Actually, there is a triple E sorority, though it's more of an eating club at Henderson St.? or OBU one of the two. EEE. I doubt it's national.

There's an inside joke within my chapter, a year or so ago (before I was even out of high school). Some random inebriated passers-by were walking past our chapter house and started shouting at some of the brothers. "You frats think you're so special with your I-O backwards alligator mouth K.

I'm still not sure why a Sigma is a backwards alligator mouth, lol :rolleyes:

My favorite lines from people :rolleyes: ...

"Oh look, it's the ZEX girls!"

"Wow, your letters spell SEX!"

If I had a nickel....

This is random but, please tell me how you made the greek letters on here. In fact, if you know how to do the same for Greek letters on both Myspace and Facebook-would you give me a heads up on how to do it...I'm a computer illiterate but, I'm doin' the opposite....Although I was asked what "I-ome" meant....I wanted to put my "Letters" on my pages for my Non-Greek Friends at home that might pronounce it "Moo" because I hate to have to keep explaining that it's "Mew".....:confused:

True. Met a very cute guy on Spring Break many many years ago who was from Greece and when saw me letters (apparently I was the first sorority/fraternity person he saw when he hit the beach) and he said, "Oh, Delta Fee Epsilon" and proceeds to flirt with me speaking GREEK. Played a long for a while (only because he was cute, mind you) and then had to let him in on the who social greek letter thing. I really loved the way he said it, though.

Thanks for the flashback :D:D:D

AHHH!!! That is SO cute. I've always wondered if people from Greece get GLO's confused!

I'll never forget meeting one of my future sisters at an informal recruitment event from Greece. It was really funny to hear how different a Greek person says their alphabet. It was something we laughed about quite a bit that night when she was telling us about having to relearn the alphabet.

I also thank you for the memories....

We often get EMO. "But why are you so emo? Does your sorority make you sad?" I have been threatening to get argyle letters and dark rimmed glasses for a while.

We also get SMO-- like I Want S'MO Sigma

We get...ooooh yeah! You guys are the ONE girls! :)