What do you call it?

the411 · #1 05-15-2002, 10:49 AM

I think it's so interesting what some of us call paraphernalia. In the South, I've noticed that most greeks refer to it as para or paro, while most greeks I know up here (in Ohio) call it 'nalia (nell-ya) or gear.

What's it called where you're from?

(Just curious)

DOVE1920 · #2 05-15-2002, 01:16 PM

In Chicago we call it "perry" but I say "'nalia"

Kimmie1913 · #3 05-15-2002, 02:02 PM

When I was up north in school Ithaca, NY) we called it para. Here at home I here both para and nalia.

Reds6 · #4 05-15-2002, 02:17 PM

WhenI was in Jersey we called it para. Now that I'm in WDC metro area I hear nalia.

the411 · #5 05-15-2002, 03:20 PM

Hey Moderator (probably CT4, am I right?), thanks for starting a new thread. I didn't even think to do that!

Three_Love · #6 05-15-2002, 03:48 PM

I was initiated in California and went to school in Alabama - we always call it "nalia" - we would always call soror's who have on too many different items at once "over-nalia'ed". You know how some neos cross and put on a Delta shirt, hat, tennis shoes with the delta shoe strings, and carry an umbrella, even if it isn't raining...LOL - OVER-NALIA'ED!!!

I never heard "para", "perry", "peri", or "paro" until I moved to the east coast, or saw folks using those terms on the 'net.

12dn94dst · #7 05-15-2002, 04:12 PM

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Originally posted by the411
Hey Moderator (probably CT4, am I right?), thanks for starting a new thread. I didn't even think to do that!

nah, it was me. You're welcome though!

librasoul22 · #8 05-15-2002, 09:48 PM

Sorry to butt in, I don't have anything to offer the discussion at hand...but is my computer malfunctioning or does this thread have 7 posts and like 3993 views????

CrimsonTide4 · #9 05-15-2002, 10:15 PM

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Originally posted by librasoul22
Sorry to butt in, I don't have anything to offer the discussion at hand...but is my computer malfunctioning or does this thread have 7 posts and like 3993 views????

I thought the same thing this afternoon that a thread had one reply but 3000+ views

but here it is when my Partner in Crime split the thread, it takes the number of views and divides in 1/2.

D.COM · #10 05-16-2002, 08:05 PM

Here in South Florida and Central Florida, we call it 'NALIA...at least that's what I've heard it been called

Delta_Girl1913 · #11 05-16-2002, 09:01 PM

Well in crooked letter (or Mississippi for those who don't know)we called it paro. But in my 7 years I have heard it called just about everything. Also, if someone had on a hat, shirt, etc. together, we said they had on double or triple paro

1Babygirl2000 · #12 05-17-2002, 01:22 PM

I've always heard 'Nalia, para or Perry. So that just kind of stuck with me. I've never heard paro, even though it's very similar to para.

RedAngel · #13 05-18-2002, 03:03 PM

I call it "peri" or "nalia".

RedAngel
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