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Originally posted by ILLINIgirl
ok, so this is what I've been told since forever by my mother who was in a sorority in the late 70's:
she says the fraternity guys on her campus told her, "you don't abbreviate your country so don't abbreviate your fraternity"
(and by abbreviate your country, they mean pronounce country w/o the "ry"...just pronounce the beginning of the word = dirty word that I'm not gonna post  )
Kinda weird...but I never say "frat" due to this lil reminder 
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I remember it like this, "You don't call your mother a "moth," you don't call your country a "c***," and you don't call your fraternity a "frat!"
The point is that the term "frat" is now pejorative.