Greek Letter Upsilon

[KappaTarzan]

first of all..
the greek letter upsilon i have heard pronounced UP-silon and OOPS-ilon.. personally my sorority chapter is Kappa Upsilon and we pronounce it UP-silon.. i suppose thats the same as FEE and PHI...

Second of all..
i see Upsilon as a Y alot of the time, but also as another symbol, which is similar to a Y but with long swirls coming down, i wish i could show it, but there is no font with it included in it... we use the little greek symbol but so many people comment that it should be "just a y" GRRRR...
Our sorority is allowed to wear our chapter letters on our shirts as well as out national letters, and we wear the Upsilon...

please, if anyone can let me know about their GLO and upsilon i'd be so grateful!!

remember.. no matter the letter, greeks do it better!


*edited for a stupid grammar error *

[sigkapdancer]

the letter upsilon looks like a Y but has the top part hanging down. My sorority is Phi Sigma Sigma but my pledge class is upsilon....so that's how i know

[AXPAlum]

In Alpha Chi Rho, the letter Upsilon is taboo and is never used:

A chapter, Phi Upsilon, was founded at the University of Iowa in 1899; but the members, being at a great distance from the other chapters and dissatisfied with the youth of the fraternity, developed disloyalty in 1901, and the fraternity in 1902 expelled the entire chapter and the remaining members joined the local chapter of Kappa Sigma.

From that day on, no chapter would use the letter. That's our take on the letter Upsilon. So we probably pronounce the letter as OOPS-silon considering our situation

AXPAlum

[KPU1190]

I'm a brother of Kappa Psi Upsilon, and we call it UPS-ilon, not OOPSilon....although I've heard that the correct pronunciation is OOPSilon....no biggie though...As for the symbol, I agree with sigkapdancer.

Joe

[Tom Earp]

Y is the common form of the greek alphabet but is curled over and it is pronouced up- silon!

Same thing as xi or z-eye. The Greek Pronuciation and I mean Greece Greek is oopssilon!

Hope this helps!

[ProudPSUDG]

Originally posted by sigkapdancer
the letter upsilon looks like a Y but has the top part hanging down. My sorority is Phi Sigma Sigma but my pledge class is upsilon....so that's how i know

Are you a member of both Phi Sigma Sigma and Sigma Kappa? (I am assuming the sigkap in your name stands for Sigma Kappa because that's what the SK's at my school call themselves)

I was taught that it is against the rules to be a member of more than one NPC organization. Is that true?

[RubberSoul]

Ok I have another pronunciation to throw in there......at my school the DU's (and everyone else) pronounced it YOOPsilon.....

[lifesaver]

My chapter designation is Phi Upsilon.

We pronounce it Phi - OOpsilon.

We shorten it to Phi -OOp. Like, "Mike, hes an alum, he's Phi-OOp 223." (His number)

WHen others come down here they refer to it as Phi - UP silon. THey might have well busted out with the "Eh" like they do in canada for all the looks they get.

[SigmaChiGuy]

I have always heard it as 'Ooop'silon, or for example: Delta 'Ooops' I joined the wrong fraternity. Just kidding.

I know that Alpha Phi (fee) has a reason why it is called that, rather than (fi), something to do with the pronunciation of the letters at that time in history??? Could be wrong though.

I guess it depends where YOU ALL are in the country and how ALL YA'LL parents raised ya.

I will tell you this though, if you are from Michigans Upper Penninsula, you'd be saying "Yooopsilon".

[sigkapdancer]

My sorority is Sigma Kappa. Someone got on the computer I use and accidentally didn't sign me off. Sorry for the confusion.

[dzsaigirl]

My fiance is a member of Delta Upsilon and every single one of them says "Yoopsilon". And I know people that work at their natl HQ and they say the same thing. So to me and everyone I know, yoopsilon.

[IowaHawkeye]

Originally posted by AXPAlum
In Alpha Chi Rho, the letter Upsilon is taboo and is never used:

A chapter, Phi Upsilon, was founded at the University of Iowa in 1899; but the members, being at a great distance from the other chapters and dissatisfied with the youth of the fraternity, developed disloyalty in 1901, and the fraternity in 1902 expelled the entire chapter and the remaining members joined the local chapter of Kappa Sigma.

From that day on, no chapter would use the letter. That's our take on the letter Upsilon. So we probably pronounce the letter as OOPS-silon considering our situation

AXPAlum

Wow, i never knew that little piece of Iowa Greek history interesting that Iowa, the place people often confuse with Idaho (we're corn not potatoes) could change the way an entire org pronouces a word

[KappaTarzan]

haha we are Kappa UP-silon, not oops or yoops...
we also use the little hangy down Y for upsilon..

Thanks so much for all the input.. some greek letter companies don't manufacture the Upsilon we use! GRRR...

[KRAMER_DU]

The correct wat to say Upsilion is U + psilon
It's not oops silion or ups silion. The u is long, so U + psilon.

I got it from a greek dictionary.

Kramer

[peachy]

Originally posted by AXPAlum
In Alpha Chi Rho, the letter Upsilon is taboo and is never used:

A chapter, Phi Upsilon, was founded at the University of Iowa in 1899; but the members, being at a great distance from the other chapters and dissatisfied with the youth of the fraternity, developed disloyalty in 1901, and the fraternity in 1902 expelled the entire chapter and the remaining members joined the local chapter of Kappa Sigma.

From that day on, no chapter would use the letter. That's our take on the letter Upsilon.

AXPAlum,

Is there also any hesitance to use the letter Phi, since that was part of the chapter's name?

Edited to Add:
My bad - I just checked the chapter listing at greekpages.com, and there are a ton of chapter names with Phi. I guess that the Upsilon is what distinguished this chapter name from all others.