Letters written out in script

[alum]

Does anyone know of a site that has the designs/patterns for all the scripts of the Greek letters? I'm not talking about the fabric choices but the actual letter written in English. These would be the words allowed to be worn by pledges when they can't wear letters until initiation.

[AChiOhSnap]

Originally Posted by alum

Does anyone know of a site that has the designs/patterns for all the scripts of the Greek letters? I'm not talking about the fabric choices but the actual letter written in English. These would be the words allowed to be worn by pledges when they can't wear letters until initiation.

greekclothing.com sells t-shirts that can be printed with the spelled-out name of a group.

[macallan25]

Pledges aren't members of a fraternity so why let them wear the fraternity's name?

[alum]

Some women's fraternities have no restriction against their pledges wearing anything affiliated with their group. Some women's fraternities allow their new members to wear letters, but not the crest. Apparently some allow just the wearing of the spelled-out nickname such as "Theta" or "Pi Phi". For all I know, some may not even allow that.

Since there was a resource that someone had found that had all the stitched style of letters as patterns, I was hoping to find a similar resource for the spelled out nicknames.

[macallan25]

Women's sororities you mean? I am still not getting this "women's fraternity" thing. It sounds strange, I have never heard of a sorority being called a fraternity, and I was reamed for it in another thread. Oh well.

Originally Posted by macallan25

Women's sororities you mean? I am still not getting this "women's fraternity" thing. It sounds strange, I have never heard of a sorority being called a fraternity, and I was reamed for it in another thread. Oh well.

FYI for everybody...

Officially known as Fraternity
Alpha Chi Omega
Alpha Gamma Delta
Alpha Omicron Pi
Alpha Phi
Alpha Xi Delta
Chi Omega
Delta Delta Delta
Delta Gamma
Kappa Alpha Theta
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Phi Mu
Phi Sigma Sigma
Pi Beta Phi
Theta Phi Alpha
Zeta Tau Alpha

Officially known as Sorority
Alpha Delta Pi
Alpha Epsilon Phi
Alpha Sigma Alpha
Alpha Sigma Tau
Delta Phi Epsilon
Delta Zeta
Gamma Phi Beta
Kappa Delta
Sigma Delta Tau
Sigma Kappa
Sigma Sigma Sigma

[Eirbear]

Originally Posted by macallan25

Women's sororities you mean? I am still not getting this "women's fraternity" thing. It sounds strange, I have never heard of a sorority being called a fraternity, and I was reamed for it in another thread. Oh well.

I'm honestly not 100% sure what qualifies a "fraternity" (and you'd think I would, since I'm IN a women's fraternity), but I think I heard that it has something to do with the rules or the constituation or how something is written. It no longer matters if it's a men's or women's group. There's some criteria which qualifies the word "fraternity" in the official name.

But, like I said, that's just what I've heard...

[CutiePie2000]

Originally Posted by macallan25

Women's sororities you mean? I am still not getting this "women's fraternity" thing. It sounds strange, I have never heard of a sorority being called a fraternity, and I was reamed for it in another thread. Oh well.

macallan25, to supplement OTW's post on page 1, here is an oldie but a goodie:
NPC sororities whose formal name is "Fraternity"

[DeltAlum]

Originally Posted by macallan25

Pledges aren't members of a fraternity so why let them wear the fraternity's name?

This is one of those things that may vary from group to group.

Even way back when I pledged Delt, pledges could wear the letters (Greek letters or written out), but could not display the crest/coat of arms. That was true of clothing and even on your car.

My impression is that the same was true of pretty much every fraternity, at least on our campus, at that time. Also, at that time, we were required to wear our pledge badges all of the time we were dressed properly -- which was highly recommended. Many of the pledge badges (althoug not ours) had the letters on them. I suppose that would be considered hazing today.


ETA, I don't understand the problem with calling something by it's official name. If a women's group was chartered as a "fraternity," that's what it is, and why not call it such if you want to. I notice that some of the NPHC groups append, "Incorporated" to their names when written. That's good, too, if that's how they want to be known.

[ladygreek]

Originally Posted by DeltAlum

I notice that some of the NPHC groups append, "Incorporated" to their names when written. That's good, too, if that's how they want to be known.

Actually, it is as simple as the fact that we have Articles of Incorporation, so legally we are incorporated. It makes a big difference in obtaining corporate sponsorships for certain activities.