Mixed Up/Unusual Names Someone Has Called Your Org.

[TrojanGirl]

Phi Mu Alpha called Phi Mu? my QMA boys would be shocked.. most chapters call themselves Sinfonia. They are a very interesting group, a Music Oriented Social Fraternity. Some of the groups are going IFC on a local level and nmore social than music. Definately a group to watch for..
As for funny name stories :

My 15 year old brother calls Pi Phi "Pot Pie." He and his buddies think it is hilarious.

TG

[ladybug1116]

The guys referred to themselves as Phi Mu Alphas....it was the groupie girls who didn't know any better....they tried to impress others but only ended up looking unintelligent.

[CutiePie2000]

My friend Johanna (a DG) had one of her Anchora magazines lying around , and you can purchase merchandise in there.

One thing was a baseball cap for fathers that said "I'm a Delta Gamma [in the letters] Dad". So her Dad saw this and said,

I'm a Triangle Hook Dad!

Yes, Triangle Hook indeed!
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On another note, do you ever get Rushees who are not that well informed about Greek life so they get confused between name pairs such as:

Alpha Chi Omega and
Chi Omega?

Alpha Delta Pi and
Alpha Omicron Pi?

Alpha Sigma Alpha and
Alpha Sigma Tau?

Delta Gamma and
Delta Zeta?

Phi Sigma Sigma and
Sigma Sigma Sigma?

Just wondering about that.....

[Lisa Fishman]

Has Alpha Delta Pi and Alpha Epsilon Phi and / or Alpha Epsilon Pi ever been mixed up or confused?

[BrandiDZ]

We have a strict chapter rule for recruitment which says that when talking about our sorority we must use the full name. This is because we have Delta Gamma on our campus and Dee Gee and Dee Zee sound too similiar.

[volgirl2376]

Originally posted by Katey Alpha Gam
someone always asks "What's A, backwards 7, triangle mean??" They don't even know it's greek letters. My mom is SOO tired of explaining it!!!

i know that has to be irritating - but i busted out laughing at the backwards 7 part. My coworkers are looking at me strangely now

[Peaches-n-Cream]

When I rushed, I knew about AETT, but I was confused about AEF and AF and AFA. We had many GLOs that started with Alphas. I got it straightened out after I received my rush guide book!

Originally posted by Lisa Fishman
Has Alpha Delta Pi and Alpha Epsilon Phi and / or Alpha Epsilon Pi ever been mixed up or confused?

[MoxieGrrl]

Originally posted by ShaedyKD
An old boyfriend, who happened to be friends with several Kappa Alpha's, used to say things like, "So, are you going out with your Kappa Alpha girls tonight?" Then he has the nerve to say, "They're just letters, not like they mean anything" after I repeatedly corrected him. Oh shoot, I went off, telling him that they do happen to stand for something and they are very special to my sisters and I. That's some non-greeks for you!

The cutest is when my little brother calls me a Kappa Triangle. Spoken like a true 12 year old...

~ A proud Kappa DELTA

Hehehe...I hear that all the time.."Oh! You're a KA!" Err...no! LOL

My boyfriend is a KA, so when he lavaliered me, I wore it for about a week before the pinning circle. I figured someone would notice. They sure didn't! "Oh...I thought that was our letters!"

[JezebelASA]

On my campus, we have Alpha Sigma Alpha and Alpha Sigma Tau. A lot of the stuff we see from nationals calls us Alpha Sigs... and this year one of the new sisters put it on a rush poster to rush Alpha Sig - they were taken down fast, but I wonder how many girls looked at them and were confused.

[GammaPhiBabe]

"One thing was a baseball cap for fathers that said "I'm a Delta Gamma [in the letters] Dad". So her Dad saw this and said, I'm a Triangle Hook Dad!"

That is hilarious!!

[33girl]

Originally posted by JezebelASA
On my campus, we have Alpha Sigma Alpha and Alpha Sigma Tau. A lot of the stuff we see from nationals calls us Alpha Sigs... and this year one of the new sisters put it on a rush poster to rush Alpha Sig - they were taken down fast, but I wonder how many girls looked at them and were confused.

Hi Jezebel!

We used "ASA" when referring to ourselves, but always had "Alpha Sigs" on our jackets. AST, the same...when they wrote it out they were Alpha Tau's or Tau's. The fact that they had "Tau Tigers" on everything helped people keep it straight.

[DHgirl]

My sorority, Delta Eta, frequently gets teased at my school. We're all engineers with a couple architects so the school gets a kick out of the fact that our letters, which are ÄH when written, are D.H. when casually spoken. Of couse, anyone who studies physical chemistry and thermodynamics knows that dH means change in enthalpy--a rigidly defined physical property of matter...It's kind of funny the first one or two times you hear it, but it gets old quickly. We're a social sorority not a geek squad!

[douthit]

Here at Montana State, two different sororities sent christmas cards that were addressed to the men of Phi Sigma! I know that a lot of people on campus call us the phi sigs, but to not care enough to include the last letter kind of ticked me off a little bit!

[pheebs278]

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.

[OnePlus69Is70]

We're Omega Delta, but we refer to ourselves as OD, which leads to jokes about 'ODing with OD'. What's worse, we sometimes use the letters AA for our pledges, for ritual reasons. The oddest part is that all of these letters were chosen to stand for phrases in Greek, and the English is just a coincidence.