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Originally Posted by nyapbp
I am in the midst of writing a post about that. The term was coined by a Syracuse professor on the occasion of the founding of Gamma Phi's Beta Chapter at Michigan.
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Just to pick a nit -- Sir Thomas More used the word "sorority" in his writings in the early 16th Century. But it was never a common word in English prior to the founding of Gamma Phi. Who knows whether the professor at Syracuse was drawing on a knowledge of More's writings or whether he was unaware of the previous use of the word and just did what someone before him had done -- go back to the Latin
sororitas and anglicize it in a manner consistent with the anglicization of
fraternitas.