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Old 11-30-2006, 04:31 PM
Drolefille Drolefille is offline
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Originally Posted by MysticCat View Post
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.

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