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Originally Posted by Beryana
Wow! Unfortunately, a lot of Alpha Omicron Pi sisters use AOPi to abbreviate Alpha Omicron Pi (which is incorrect because it is mixing Roman and Greek letters. II is the closest to Pi that you can type without changing the font - which is not possible on a typewriter. TT is also incorrect.). It is also very probable that four and half years ago your website used AOII and not the current AOPi - which still can be EASILY confused with Alpha Omicron Pi.
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Pardon my repeated crashing of this board. I know it's old and blah blah blah. I was looking for an ebay thread to let your sisters know about a badge and then this thread piqued my interest.
At my campus, members use AOPi and AOII to abbreviate Alpha Omicron Pi interchangeably. It never struck me that "AOPi" is incorrect, since A is both "Ay" and Alpha, and O is both "Oh" and Omicron. So A and O are both Roman and Greek. Therefore, they'd both be correct, since AOPi would be the Roman abbreviation and AOII is the Greek letter approximation on a keyboard. I hate when I see AOTT. It always reads "Ay Oh Tee Tee" in my head. It's weird to see aoii, since that always reads "Ay Oh Eye Eye" in my head.
I know I wouldn't appreciate a local with a nickname that sounds exactly the same as my sorority, especially if they had a bad reputation (meaning hazing, drugs, excessive promiscuity etc). I wonder if there is an Alpha Chi Omicron or an Alpha Zeta Delta or a Theta Pi Alpha out there. Oy.