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Old 12-12-2001, 05:15 PM
AngelPhiSig AngelPhiSig is offline
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A lot of the different ways you are saying the letters are due to area dialect, and also the way that the letters are pronounced in the true greek language.

Phi is pronounced Fie in English and Fee in Greek
Xi is pronounced Zi in English and Zee in Greek

I have never heard anyone pronounce Alpha other than as in the word AL.

I know at LTS this summer, we roomed with girls from the Xi chapter, they pronounced it Zee... but our grand archon, think national president, pronounced it Zi.

variations.

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as long as Im here... from what I know here are the english eqivalents (sp!!) of greek letters, if Im wrong, please correct me:
Alpha A
Beta B
Gamma G
Delta D
Epsilon E
Zeta Z
Eta H
Theta TH
Iota I
Kappa K
Lambda L
Mu M
Nu N
Xi X
Omicron O
Pi P
Rho R
Sigma S
Tau T
Upsilon U
Phi F or Ph
Chi C or CH?
Psi PS
Omega W?
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