Mixed Up/Unusual Names Someone Has Called Your Org.

[Kevin]

Last summer we had our officer's retreat.

Was a blast, we stayed at the hotel the night before we had to do our planning sessions, etc...

There were adult beverages there and such.. Some fella from some other room in the hotel asked us where the "E N" party was.

Does anyone else with the letter Gamma get asked.."So what does the r stand for?"

[DeltaSigStan]

Since my Delta Sig chapter rechartered in 99, we're pretty small, unlike the 120 member chapter we had in the early 90s.

So, since we're relativly unknown, people ALWAYS used to mistake us for Delta Sigma PI, that business frat. And we're like "NO, we're in IFC".

Which I never understood why this was never resolved, because both of us go by "Delta Sig" and "DSP", even though we were started before PI was.

[irishpipes]

Originally Posted by DeltaSigStan

Since my Delta Sig chapter rechartered in 99, we're pretty small, unlike the 120 member chapter we had in the early 90s.

So, since we're relativly unknown, people ALWAYS used to mistake us for Delta Sigma PI, that business frat. And we're like "NO, we're in IFC".

Which I never understood why this was never resolved, because both of us go by "Delta Sig" and "DSP", even though we were started before PI was.

I know this is really, really old, but I am a member of Delta Sigma Pi (the business fraternity), and we are known as Deltasigs, but the IFC fraternity is Delta Sig. Obviously it sounds the same, but we were taught to spell it as one word to avoid confusion with the Delta Sigs.

I don't have any stories about AOII, except a few people who thought that the only Greek "O" was Omega, so they thought we screwed up our name.

[LeslieAGD]

On my campus, Delta Sigma Phi is called Delt Sig but, at some other schools and often times here on GC, people call them Delta Sig. That still bugs me.

[KerriMarie]

Originally posted by UMgirl
Does anyone else with the letter Gamma get asked.."So what does the r stand for?"

Yeah, I get that... or "Is that a T?"

I've also gotten "OH! I thought your necklace said KKK" while wearing my lavaliere. Um. No.

[12dn94dst]

Originally posted by RedRoseSAI
I've worn letters and had people ask me about EAI (i.e., SAI) Kinda surprises me - didn't we all use the sigma as a symbol in high school math?

you would think so, but apparently folks never got to that level of math or science. as CT4 said earlier, we get asked about "AEO" all the time.

[KappaStargirl]

Originally posted by UMgirl
Does anyone else with the letter Gamma get asked.."So what does the r stand for?"

Oh lordy, all the time. A story:

I was in one of the college choirs, and another choir member was a DG. We were both wearing our letters one day, and I overheard her talking with our choir director, telling him something like "No, it's the Greek letter Delta, and that's a Gamma, it's my sorority, etc." Afterwards, he turned to me and said "So what's KKR?"

Dim people, part one.

I also get the "Oh, for a minute I thought your necklace said KKK."

[CutiePie2000]

Originally posted by ROWDYsister
"I'm sure all of my Alpha Phi sisters will relate to this one: People pronouncing Phi like "Ph-eye" instead of the way we actually pronounce it, "Ph-ee" We even have a song about it."

I had no idea anyone ever pronounced it "Ph-ee." Just the other day I was getting a little irritated when my math teacher said it like that. I just thought to myself, "Nope, it's Ph-eye. Pi Beta Ph-eye." You learn something new everyday.

Your Math teacher is actually right.
The English pronunciation of "Phi" is fie.
The Greek pronunciation of "Phi" is fee.
Since the Math Teacher is talking about Phi in terms of Math (just like Delta for change and Sigma for sum are in there), and people in Greece pretty much invented Math, "Fee" is right, cuz it's the Greek pronunciation..

As for names like
Alpha "Fee" and
Pi Beta "Fie"....when it comes to nomenclature, fraternities and sororities essentially use a "hybrid" of both English and Greek pronunciation.

FWIW: I had a Math teacher who pronunced Beta as "Beeta" (which is the Greek pronunciation).

[chantillylace55]

yeah people call us "rob" a lot.... kind of funny i guess?

[aephi alum]

Just thought of another one - not sure if this has already come up, but -

One of my sorority sisters has a bio sister who is a member of SDT. When she is wearing letters she gets asked ALL THE TIME "Why are you wearing a shirt that says EAT?" As if the STD jokes weren't bad enough

[slibfs14]

Again We have to correct groups all the time we are not Phi Mu a nursing sorority based off of ADPi but Phi Mu Alpha the Social fraternity based around music. Just a little alpha means so much. It doesn't work like Lambda Chi does for Lambda Chi Alpha!!!

Jason McCarty
President
Beta Alpha Chapter
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity

President
UTC Interfraternity Council

[TotallyWicked]

the main one I get..mainly from family is "Oh do you work for ATA?!"

Others include mispronouncing Lambda as LambAda..so people get some real lame jokes there.

My sister and other family members, when I wear letters that have the fancy Upsilon (like my sig), they tend to say 'AAAYYYA!" WOMP

Upsilon is almost always mispronounced UP-silon as opposed to OOP-silon.

Whenever I wear my letters around my family (being that we grew up in a gang infested neighborhood) or childhood friends, say "damn that looks like you're throwing down the fork" (reference to a gang >:O )

And us and Alpha Psi Lambda get confused all the time because of the Alpha looking like a Lambda and the Psi somewhat resembling the Upsilon...I;ve gotten a couple of A Psi members thinking i was one of their brothers LOL

[rufio]

oh we get Delta "OOP"silon alot. so finally we made a rush shirt that had a dictionary definition and DU spelled out phonetically.

Delta Upsilon: (del-tah yoop-sih-lon)
N. 1. Better Men
2. Better Brothers
3. Better Fraternity

we also get Delta EPSILON alot...that is just plain wrong.

[banditone]

My ex girlfriend used to call us "assholes".