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We use the "fake" meaning of the letters too. I think it's OK to say it since it's not actually the meaning of the greek letters Phi Mu, just an idea someone came up with in the last decade or two. Somebody post though quickly if you don't think I should.

If you're confused -- this might help. One of my sisters was lavilered at the Delta Chi formal last year, and I was dating a Delta Chi so I was there too. They described the Delta as standing for the first letter in the greek word for law, I think (D Chi was originally a law fraternity at Cornell) and then Chi as the first letter in the greek word for God, and brought it all together by saying, may God be with you as these brothers be with you, and incorporating their quest for lawfulness as part of their history.

Of course that's not the meaning of the letters a Delta Chi is given at his initation (I don't know what the true meaning is, but I was so shocked I asked the boyfriend if that was THE meaning after the formal.) But they still mean something, and it's a way to "lend" meaning to the letters until you really are introduced to the meaning.