Greeks whose names are subsets of others?
 

I was thinking about the fact that when I do web research for "Alpha Phi Omega" that everything would come up (and more) if I were trying to do web research for Alpha Phi. I'm trying to think about which GLOs are subsets of others that are at least moderately known (strong regional at least)

Alpha Phi: Alpha Phi Alpha, Alpha Phi Omega, Alpha Phi Delta, Alpha Phi Gamma and probably a few more (not familiar with any 'something Alpha Phi' groups.)

Both Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Alpha Epsilon Pi: Sigma Alpha Epsilon Pi.
Phi Mu: Phi Mu Delta
Sigma Nu: Alpha Sigma Nu

Any others spring to mind?

*Note, I'm not counting if a letter is added in the middle, so as an example Beta Pi (if it existed) would not be a subset of Beta Theta Pi

Alpha Chi Omega and Chi Omega

Took the words right out of my mouth!

The Alpha Chi Omega/Chi Omega thing made it so hard for me to search for gifts for my daughters online, even when I put Chi Omega in quotes!

There was a problem at the last college I taught at with this. There had been a Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia chapter there forever and they called themselves Phi Mus, even though I've heard that most chapters call themselves Sinfonians. So when a Phi Mu chapter colonized, there were obviously problems!

Alpha Gamma Delta and Delta Gamma ... Searching for one always brings up results for the other!

Also, Alpha Delta Gamma

Amen!

In an advanced search (on some websites) you can search for:
Chi Omega -Alpha

Good! BlazerCheer wants some more Chi O flip-flops so I'll try that!

Sigma Alpha (Agriculture Sorority), Sigma Alpha Iota (Music), Alpha Sigma Alpha (NPC), and Alpha Sigma Phi (NIC)....

Did I miss any?

Well if you keep things in quotes, it will often put the ones in the right order first in Google, I think.

Alpha Sigma Phi doesn't fit the same pattern since the letters Alpha and Sigma are flipped from Sigma Alpha.

True - but Alpha Sigma Alpha, Alpha Sigma Tau, Alpha Sigma Phi, Alpha Sigma Multicultural Sorority, and Alpha Sigma Lambda are all "Alpha Sigma"

The first time I went through the PM process in Sinfonia, one of the other PMs called us Phi Mu once, at which point i shut him down and said to never say that again because it was the name of a sorority.

What about Kappa Alpha and Kappa Alpha Theta. Also Phi Sigma Kappa and Sigma Kappa. Finally, Phi Kappa Sigma and Kappa Sigma.

Gamma Phi Beta & Zeta Phi Beta (Also Gamma Beta Phi Honor Society). Also sometimes FIJI!

Sigma Chi and Zeta Sigma Chi

Unless yall know of some locals names Sigma Gamma or Gamma Rho... :)

advantages of using a not-so-common greek letter. I often get other org's chapters named Gamma Rho or Sigma Gamma, though.

Kappa Alpha Order and Kappa Alpha Society.

Kappa Delta and Kappa Delta Rho, Kappa Delta Pi.

Sometimes Alpha Kappa Delta, Pi Kappa Delta, and alpha Kappa Delta Phi. There are several locals too that show up.

Sigma Phi and Sigma Phi Delta. Sigma Phi and Sigma Phi Epsilon.

And Phi Mu Alpha. ;)

I've heard that occasionally (as in a handful of times in the last 30 years), and only on campuses where there is no Phi Mu chapter. But the chapter should have known better.

ETA: The random things one thinks of when walking the dog. I realized that I should mention that I can think of one old Sinfonian sweetheart song that sing the praises of "a girl of old Phi Mu."

At my daughter's school, they call both Pi Beta Phi and Pi Kappa Phi fraternity "Pi Phi." Everyone who is not a Pi Kappa Phi calls them "Guy Phi." Apparently, the brothers do not like this nickname, but it just makes things less confusing.

The "sorority" from this TV series was called Sigma Gamma http://www.e4.com/sororitygirls/

Why don't they go by Pi Kap?

I've heard that, but I have to admit that Guy Phi is pretty funny.

I agree, and that's probably why it's stuck. Her campus happens to have about every fraternity that starts with a Pi or Phi, and ends with a Pi or Phi or Psi. I'm sure the students keep it straight, but I admit that I've thought, "who decided to let another Pi, Phi, Psi group colonize?" Any group with a clearly different set of letters would seem to be preferable!

Although not really a subset, I keep getting tons of Tri-Delta hits when I have been searching for DTD stuff for my son.

The legend is that Pi Kappa Phi got kicked off campus sometime in the early part of the century, and when they were recolonized, their nationals "punished" them by not allowing them to be called Pi Kap anymore, and they became Pi Phi instead. W&L was an all-male school at that time.

Again, total urban legend. (Another: ATO was kicked off campus, and never allowed to come back [even though it's the Alpha Chapter {effectively--I think it's actually VMI}] for derailing a train into a campus building.)

On the other hand, W&L's fraternity naming system is just slightly off kilter from the rest of the country. Pi Kappa Alpha is called PIKA not Pike, and LXA is just Lambda, not Lambda Chi. Additionally, Sigma Phi Epsilon was SPE before they closed, and Sig Ep after their recolonization.

It's a friggin' weird place. I miss it.

I find this kind of funny because Sigma Phi was SigEp's original [proposed] name!

And the original name of Sigma Chi.

Generallygreek gave the same explanation about Pi Kappa Phi, but she seemed to think the punishment was much more recent, because a brother told her that the ban had been lifted this year and they are now allowed to go by Pi Kap (I think this is a case of closing the barn door after the horse escaped...I think they're stuck with Guy Phi). She said the ban had something to do with them having a party while a national officer/visiting consultant was on campus. I thought it was highly suspect that anyone's national would tell them to go by Pi Phi, a well-known women's group. Your story about it happening when W&L was all male makes more sense.

We also called Pi Kappa Alpha PIKA, and my brother-in-law (who is one) told me that while PIKE is more common, PIKA is used at some chapters.

For all the Kappa Alphas mentioned, I'm surprised no one said "Alpha Kappa Alpha" or "Kappa Alpha Psi"

Agreed,

I'm not sure which would be worst to try to research online "Alpha Phi" or "Kappa Alpha" (with "Phi Mu" in third place, I think)