Your letters scambled?

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by LaneSig

Have you ever been confused for Phi Mu Delta? Just curious.

Not in my experience. The confusion with Phi Mu comes when people try to shorten our name (a la "Lambda Chi") by dropping the Alpha.

[SAITrump]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Never seen an issue with scrambling of letters, but I have heard of confusion in the names for two- and three-letter orgs where the first two letters are the same,e.g., Phi Mu and Phi Mu Alpha. Yes, I've heard some people who don't know better refer to us as Phi Mu.

There has been some confusion on my campus over the two that happen to share the first two letters, SAE and SAI. Though SAI is never officially given a hall (there are no houses for sororities), we tend to block together when possible and display our letters outside our door. That happened pretty strongly this year. Our neighbor hall? SAE.

[psusue]

Originally Posted by SAITrump

There has been some confusion on my campus over the two that happen to share the first two letters, SAE and SAI. Though SAI is never officially given a hall (there are no houses for sororities), we tend to block together when possible and display our letters outside our door. That happened pretty strongly this year. Our neighbor hall? SAE.

It'd be even more confusing if you had Sigma Alpha on your campus, the agricultural interest sorority.

[WCsweet<3]

The only one that is similar to kd (other than kappa delta pi) is a small local at a small school outside of Portland. It is Aloha Kappa Delta. It has a white rose for a flower as do we and it's colors are pearl white, olive green (ditto) and royal purple. It's philanthropy is listed as children, which three out of the four KD philanthropies focus on. Is there a mix up? No, but I'm willing to bet a founder or two of AKD was interested or looked at KD when they were founding it.

Also AKD is apparently a national sociology society. Not at the location I am looking, but at other universities.

[BumbleBeeofDDD]

Heh, it would be hard for someone to scramble Delta Delta Delta.

[excelblue]

Originally Posted by BumbleBeeofDDD

Heh, it would be hard for someone to scramble Delta Delta Delta.

You'd be surprised; scrambling can happen in many more ways than just the letters themselves.

For someone inexperienced with Greek Letters, it's just "Triangles"

As for my own fraternity, Triangle, I have been asked by several non-Greeks if I was a "Tri-Delt" when I wear my "letter." It's basically a T inscribed inside a Delta (kind of looks like /T\). It gets very annoying.

[psusue]

Or Sigma Sigma Sigma and Phi Beta Sigma. My favorite though is when I initiated into Tri Sigma and my friend in Phi Beta Sigma was like "we're both Sigmas now!" It was cute.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by psusue

Or Sigma Sigma Sigma and Phi Beta Sigma. My favorite though is when I initiated into Tri Sigma and my friend in Phi Beta Sigma was like "we're both Sigmas now!" It was cute.

I doubt there is any confusion there. It's all about the context. LOL.

Sigma means Phi Beta Sigma to everyone (in real life) I talk about Greekdom with.

[violetpretty]

One of my sisters accidentally bought a Kappa Sigma window cling for her little. In her defense, they are inside application, so they are printed backwards.

[aephi alum]

Originally Posted by violetpretty

One of my sisters accidentally bought a Kappa Sigma window cling for her little. In her defense, they are inside application, so they are printed backwards.

I'm sorry, this made me lol. My school has chapters of both Kappa Sigma and Sigma Kappa. More than once, a PNM, asked where she's preffing, has said, "Alpha Phi and Kappa Sigma." hee hee

There was a thread on this a while back, about GLOs with similar letters and the confusion that often resulted. Kappa Sigma and Sigma Kappa; Alpha Epsilon Phi and Alpha Epsilon Pi; Phi Sigma Kappa, Phi Kappa Sigma, Phi Kappa Theta; Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Sigma Phi Epsilon; Theta Chi and Theta Xi - all these GLOs have or have had chapters at my school, and confusion did occur.