"Popular" letters

astroAPhi · #1 06-13-2003, 11:36 AM

Ever notice that some Greek letters just never, or rarely get used? Like, what's wrong with Omicron, Psi, Upsilon, etc? Meanwhile there's a billion Alphas, Deltas, Phis, and Kappas. On my campus every organization but two has an Alpha or a Phi in it for goodness sake... and mine has both! Do you have letters on your campus that everyone has?

Anyone know why these letters stand out? If anything, I just think it's kinda funny.

krystle · #2 06-13-2003, 11:38 AM

i think...5 out of the 8 that we have..have phi in them.

phi sigma sigma
gamma phi beta
theta phi alpha
phi pi delta
kappa delta phi

CutiePie2000 · #3 06-13-2003, 11:38 AM

We must have a psychic bond, because I was thinking this yesterday!

Alpha and Delta seem to get used a lot, but Omicron, Xi and even Psi, Eta, Iota not so much.

Omicron: I can only think of AOII.
Xi: I think only AXiD and Theta Xi use it.
Mu: I can only think of Phi Mu and Sigma Alpha Mu, but surely there must be others (I am just too lazy to go and look).
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At my campus, we seemed to like Alpha, Delta and Gamma and Phi!

Alpha Gamma Delta
Alpha Delta Pi
Alpha Phi
Delta Phi Epsilon
Delta Gamma
Gamma Phi Beta
Kappa Kappa Gamma
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Also:
How many "Tri-somethings" are there?
There's Tri Delta and Tri Sigma (NPC)
There's Tri Alpha and Tri Zeta (I think they're locals).
There's Tri Kappa (I think it's educational or honor or something) and there's Tri Beta (also something along those lines).

Any others?

AOII_Luv · #4 06-13-2003, 11:40 AM

I noticed that too. And, I have noticed that I have seen like only one organization with Iota or Eta in the names. What about chapter letters? Are Upsilon, Omicron, Iota, Eta, and Psi just as uncommon? At IU, there is an Alpha Omicron chapter, either it is DU or Lambda Chi, but that was the first time I have seen Omicron other than in my organizations name.

texas*princess · #5 06-13-2003, 11:50 AM

Interesting topic!

I can't think of a lot of GLO's with Nu in them either. The only ones I can think of without hurting my brain is Sigma Nu & Theta Nu Xi.

DeltaSigStan · #6 06-13-2003, 11:52 AM

At SDSU, if we're just talking about IFC and Panhellenic, then we don't have any orgs with Eta, Iota, Lambda (LXA comes back next Spring though), Xi, Omicron or Rho. The cultural GLOs have one with Lambda though.

I think Eta is the most misused letter. There are no IFC, PHC or NHPC GLOs that use it. I only know of Eta Sigma Phi, Eta Kappa Nu and Alpha Eta RHo, which are not social GLOs.

WhiteDaisy128 · #7 06-13-2003, 12:00 PM

Alpha Delta Pi
Delta Gamma
Delta Zeta
Chi Omega
Sigma Kappa
Zeta Tau Alpha

That is my campus. Delta is most popular and Alpha after that...but I think we are pretty mixed.

AGDPrincess70 · #8 06-13-2003, 12:06 PM

We seem to have a lot of GLO's with sigma or delta in them at my school:

Alpha Gamma DELTA
Alpha Xi DELTA
DELTA Zeta
Alpha SIGMA Tau
SIGMA SIGMA SIGMA
SIGMA Kappa
SIGMA Nu Phi (local)
Phi SIGMA SIGMA
SIGMA DELTA Tau

SIGMA Phi Epsilon
SIGMA Nu
Phi SIGMA Kappa
Phi SIGMA Phi
DELTASIGMA Phi
SIGMA Tau Gamma
DELTA Tau DELTA

then there's the rest of them

Lambda Chi Alpha
Kappa Phi Alpha (local)
Tau Kappa Epsilon
Arm of Honor (local)

MysticCat · #9 06-13-2003, 12:13 PM

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Originally posted by CutiePie2000
Mu: I can only think of Phi Mu and Sigma Alpha Mu, but surely there must be others (I am just too lazy to go and look).

Wellll, there is Phi Mu Alpha!

(Of course, we worked in the ever-popular Phi and Alpha, too.)

There's also Phi Mu Delta.

Hail Sinfonia!

AlphaFrog · #10 06-13-2003, 12:13 PM

We have LOTS of Sigmas

Sigma Sigma Sigma
Sigma Kappa
Alpha Sigma Alpha
Phi Sigma Sigma
Sigma Chi
Sigma Pi
Sigma Tau Gamma
Delta Sigma Phi
Alpha Sigma Tau
Sigma Lambda Sigma

#11 06-13-2003, 12:15 PM

I think Alpha was the most popular on my college campus... followed by Delta.. Phi is up there pretty high for us too.

we had:
Alpha Sigma (local)
Delta Zeta
Sigma Sigma Sigma
Tau Phi Lambda
Delta Omicron ---there's an Omicron for you!
Phi Mu Alpha
Pi Kappa Alpha
Phi Chi Epsilon
Delta Chi
Phi Sigma Kappa
Lambda Chi Alpha
Tau Kappa Epsilon
Alpha Phi Alpha
Delta Sigma Theta
Zeta Phi Beta

AlphaFrog · #12 06-13-2003, 12:16 PM

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Originally posted by MysticCat81
Wellll, there is Phi Mu Alpha! (Of course, we worked in the ever-popular Phi and Alpha, too.)

There's also Phi Mu Delta.

Hail Sinfonia!

Mu Phi Epsilon Professional Music Fraternity... shame on you not knowing your music fraternities!

MysticCat · #13 06-13-2003, 12:24 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by AlphaFrog
Mu Phi Epsilon Professional Music Fraternity... shame on you not knowing your music fraternities!

My bad. Just call me a blockhead.

Does it say anything for my defense that it's Friday and I have over expended my weekly allotment of brain cells?

AlphaFrog · #14 06-13-2003, 12:30 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by MysticCat81
My bad. Just call me a blockhead.

Does it say anything for my defense that it's Friday and I have over expended my weekly allotment of brain cells?

It's ok, you're forgiven, you're just lucky I happen to like Sinfonians!

astroAPhi · #15 06-13-2003, 12:40 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by BetaRose
I realize that not every glo name is based on a Greek phrase, but a lot of them are. A lot of Greek words start with letters like alpha, delta, phi,. It makes sense that glo names have those letters in them more frequently.

So they're sort of the equivalent of R S T L N E (yay Wheel of Fortune)? Interesting... I didn't know that.

The new local on our campus is Delta Psi Sigma... I think they purposely picked letters that no one else has.

On our campus we have:
Alpha Phi
Gamma Phi Beta (by the way... the only other Beta I can think of is Beta Theta Pi)
Delta Psi Sigma
Lambda Chi Alpha
Tau Kappa Epsilon
Chi Phi
Pi Lambda Phi
Theta Xi
Pi Kappa Alpha

Theta Xi, TKE, and Delta Psi Sigma definitely have the most "original" sounding names on our campus.