Inserting our Greek letters into words

[pi_love_emily]

Hey Sisters,
Around campus I've seen other sororities and fraternities use their Greek letters and replace them with actual letters in words (for example, Phi Sigma Sigma used their letter in the word COLLEGE). After seeing those shirts I've tried coming up with ways to use ours but I am rather unsuccessful. Do any of you have any ideas for words our letters could work in?

Emily

[honeychile]

pi_love_emily, I'm not sure what you mean. Is there an example? Maybe we could all work on something for you.

[LucyKKG]

Sorry for the crash. I think she means something like this:

HΦME or CΦLLΣGΣ

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by LucyKKG

Sorry for the crash. I think she means something like this:

HΦME or CΦLLΣGΣ

We ♥ any crashers who are nice!

Okay, I get it now! Sadly, I can only think of
AcaDemiaPhobia!

Can somebody else PLEASE do something better?

[GTAlphaPhi]

Pardon the lane swerve, ladies.

I think it's easier for Phi Mu and Phi Sigma Sigma to accomplish this feat because their Greek letters look somewhat like certain, albeit unrelated, English letters, like Φ = O and Σ = E. Your alpha is already identical to A, and delta couldn't really try to pass as anything other than an A, and pi looks nothing like any English letter (or maybe a large lowercase "n"?). Then again, I was never voted Most Creative, so I'm sure I'll be surprised with what y'all can come up with in this thread.

I've always like Phi Mu's "HΦME"...it's just naturally centered and symmetrical and is perfect for both back-to-school and recruitment (at least in the south).

[ree-Xi]

I might be on the other side...I don't like seeing the misappopriation of Greek letters (though the Phi Mu "Home" is cute).

For example, look at the name of television show GREEK, where the "E"s are Sigmas.

Maybe it bugs me because people refer to Alpha Xi Delta as AZD (in writing, they use a Z, because the English pronunciation of the letter Xi is pronounced "zee" when following a vowel. In Greek it's pronounced "ksi" as the "x" is pronounced in "box"). I usually write it out AXiD, but I have seen other members write out AXD.

[GTAlphaPhi]

Originally Posted by ree-Xi

I might be on the other side...I don't like seeing the misappopriation of Greek letters (though the Phi Mu "Home" is cute).

For example, look at the name of television show GREEK, where the "E"s are Sigmas.

Maybe it bugs me because people refer to Alpha Xi Delta as AZD (in writing, they use a Z, because the English pronunciation of the letter Xi is pronounced "zee" when following a vowel. In Greek it's pronounced "ksi" as the "x" is pronounced in "box"). I usually write it out AXiD, but I have seen other members write out AXD.

Oh, I agree, I hate seeing sigmas used as e's (probably the most common Greek-for-English/Latin substitution). I like "HΦME" because it keeps the GLO's abbreviation intact.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by ree-Xi

Maybe it bugs me because people refer to Alpha Xi Delta as AZD (in writing, they use a Z, because the English pronunciation of the letter Xi is pronounced "zee" when following a vowel. In Greek it's pronounced "ksi" as the "x" is pronounced in "box").

Sorry, but I have to say it -- I'm sure some at GC expect me to say it: It has nothing to do with following a vowel. That's a Greek urban legend.

The Greek pronunciation of the name of the letter X (Xi) is ksee. (In Greek, X = ks and i always = ee.)

Because in English we don't typically start a word with an x sound and instead substitute a z sound (xylophone, Xavier, Xerox) the anglicized pronunciation of the name of the letter X is zee.

But because we also tend in English not to pronounce a single i in a one syllable word as ee, the Americanized pronunciation of the name of the letter X is zeye. (We do the same thing with P, F, C and Y.)

It has nothing to do with what letter comes before it. It's simply that Alpha Xi Delta chose to use the pronunciation of the name of the letter X closer to the Greek (like Alpha Phi did with the pronunciation of the name of the letter F). That's all.

That said, as a general rule, I'm with you on substituting Greek letters for English ones -- it looks like we don't know what the letters really are.

[xomanadaxo]

I just stumbled across this...

In honor of this wonderfully enlightening "Xi" debate, I figured I'd share this with you.

ETA: Just remembered some from a while back...Kappa Sigma's "KollegΣ." (It makes me shudder just looking at it!) and Sigma Chi's sΣXy

[lovespink88]

Originally Posted by xomanadaxo

I just stumbled across this...

In honor of this wonderfully enlightening "Xi" debate, I figured I'd share this with you.

Sorry for not checking back on this thread sooner, but this was definitely my chapter's philanthropy shirt this year, LOL

[chickenoodle]

Originally Posted by lovespink88

Sorry for not checking back on this thread sooner, but this was definitely my chapter's philanthropy shirt this year, LOL

I think I've seen this shirt around my campus....

but I could be mistaken. I don't make it a point to look at Greek shirts, but this looks familiar.

Cute slogan btw

[lovespink88]

Originally Posted by chickenoodle

I think I've seen this shirt around my campus....

but I could be mistaken. I don't make it a point to look at Greek shirts, but this looks familiar.

Cute slogan btw

A few days after I posted this, I came across pictures from our Purdue chapter. They were wearing the same shirt, but in maroon. So I wouldn't be surprised if you saw them on your campus.

I believe "The AmaXIng Challenge" is the name of the new national philanthropy event (although we have a few different specific events to chose from). So maybe many chapters got this shirt??

[BabyPiNK_FL]

Usually once those types of printed shirts (if from the same company) are made they save them so other chapters can customize and order them so i wouldn't be surprised if they initially came from neither chapter.

[psusue]

Haha so my boyfriend was looking at the letters that are on girls who live in the sorority floor's windows and he saw Gamma Phi Beta and said,

"Wait, there's a sorority called rob?" So I corrected him, saying the first letter was a gamma (mistakenly thinking that that was the only letter he needed to be explained). He then replied,

"So it's gob?" I could have smacked my own head. I said no, of course, and explained that if one was to pronounce it phonetically it would be something like "guhfuhbuh". He has now proceeded to call them (since that explanation) "guhfuhbuh".

And 33girl I completely feel your pain on the sigmas not being e's thing. People have legitimately asked me how I like being in "Tri Epsilon"

... uh, Tri Ep all the way? Haha.

[bostongreek]

Originally Posted by psusue

And 33girl I completely feel your pain on the sigmas not being e's thing. People have legitimately asked me how I like being in "Tri Epsilon"

... uh, Tri Ep all the way? Haha.

My favorite are the people who pronounce it as one long "e" sound.

I do remember before I went Greek wondering why girls were walking around with EAT across their chests though, haha.