It should also be noted that no NPC sorority has an official affiliation with a men's organization, despite what some members think.

What's interesting is that Alpha Gamma Delta was founded on the same campus 30 years later, but took on the name "Women's Fraternity." I wonder if they did so because they didn't want to "steal" the term created especially for the Gamma Phis...?

I also wonder if some version of the word sorority was used for those little sister groups.

As MysticCat mentioned, these students took Latin and would be aware of sororitas as the word for sisterhood. What if another derivation had been used for those little sister groups? Hmm. We need a historian!

Just wondering what happened to the OPs question about starting greek group?:p

Thank you KPL or KLP D. YOur sig line still sucks and wrong.:rolleyes:

Indeed. While I have no doubt that the Syracuse professor suggested the term "sorority" to the fledging Gamma Phi Betas, I think it quite unlikely, given that fraternity, from Latin fraternitas, had been in the English lexicon for centuries, that professor was the first English speaker to anglicize sororitas.

I have a research project.

If the OP had presented more effort than a one-two sentence question, we might care. Notice the difference between this person and BlueButterfly (or however her username goes)


BTW, her sig is a QUOTE. So technically she got it right.

Are you saying you won't be our historian? Or that you will :D

Can you please shut up about it? We've all heard it, no one cares what you think about it. Send her incomprehensible PMs if you must insist on harping on and on and on.

You must be very lucky to have advanced so far in your profession without basic reading comprehension skills. Gamma Phi Beta, who popularized the word sorority to refer to women's fraternal organizations, does not now, nor did we ever, have an official affiliation with a men's organization.

See gammaphibeta.org for more information.

Apparently it is YOU who have NO comprehension skills. Where did I mention Gamma Phi Beta?

You're really making yourself look stupid.

Gamma Phi Beta was already founded, and was a sisterhood called a sorority. So were several other sororities. If you'd like to open your mouth & insert your foot, this would be the time.

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Thank you for quoting.

:p No problem.

I've got a new siggy!

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