What have people thought your letters spelled?

[Rio_Kohitsuji]

I get the, "What's with the upside-down V, O, and a pitchfork?"

[tunatartare]

I'm Russian and some Greek letters look like Russian ones. One time I went into the Russian grocery store in my neighborhood wearing my letters and the salesclerk wanted to know what my shirt said because the Kappa and the Lambda are the same as the Russian K and L letters but there is no Psi in Russian. He thought it was an acronym for something and that I've just been in America for so long that I started to forget the Russian alphabet and make up letters that were never actually in it...

[bethmousey]

Chi exchange... I got it (psych-stats here)!

Our brother house on campus was Delta Tau Delta, but we always referred to them as the Triangle-T-Triangles. Delta joke, I guess

My favorite one is when my non-Greek boyfriend and I discuss organizations. He's a math doctoral student, so he pronounces the letters differently than I do.

[FAB*SpiceySpice]

Originally posted by bethmousey

Our brother house on campus was Delta Tau Delta, but we always referred to them as the Triangle-T-Triangles. Delta joke, I guess

My friends and I still call the Delts this...my ex boyfriend is a Delt and he just *loved* it when we talked about their house as the Triangle T Triangle house. It started freshman year though when none of us knew the greek letters, but we kept it around just b/c we thought it was funny and we're dorks.

[SIAsensacion]

I've had people say to me "C.I.A.?" or "Why are you wearing a C.I.A. shirt?" Ummmm, last time I checked, a S looks NOTHING like a C!!!!!

People have also thought my letters were "E I A". But I guess when you have things like "My Big, Fat, GrSSk Wedding", people are going to thing that a sigma is an E.

[KO_Pike]

I went to the doctor's for a check up and I was wearing my letters. Passing through all the nurses they said, "Do those letters mean No Known Allergies?" That was a moment...

[ZZ-kai-]

This one takes the cake for Beta:

[kateshort]

My husband suggests these two:

Phi Mu Alpha, Kappa Sigma chapter, they made into OMARS. 'Cause a K and an R look so much alike.

Then you had all the engineers who were thinking "Force times Mass equals Acceleration" ...

[TriDeltaGal]

zz-kai,
If I'm not mistaken, I think that is the Beta house up at UCSB. I had a couple of friends that were brothers up there.

[ZZ-kai-]

Not sure, but it looks like a CA house for sure....

[Lindz928]

I was at a fraternity rush event a few years ago with my (now ex) boyfriend. We were talking to a rushee, when he looked at my shirt and said, "Oh, you're an ADP?" (Instead of ADPi). Yeah, he didn't get it too wrong, but we could tell he was just trying to look like he knew what he was talking about to impress the brothers. It was kinda funny.

[KSUViolet06]

If I had a dime for everytime someone said "You're in the one that has 3 purple E's on the house"..........

[BabyP]

Originally posted by LatinaAlumna
I get "A-O-N" a lot, but the first time I heard it was from a greek, and he was serious!!

Also, some people have said our letters look like AVON (as in the make-up line), and others say it looks like NOV upside down. Someone once said "you must have been founded in November!"

I am so GUILTY of that... I am used to seeing it as AON that even though I know the alphabet by heart its easier for me to think it that way.. I am so bad sorry

We have been reffered as O.D.

[ejbiff]

As a member of Sigma Sigma Sigma, I usually get "are you a member of EEEEEEEE?" Gotta love it! I don't get offended- I find it kind of humorus.

[jadis96]

Originally Posted by ejbiff

As a member of Sigma Sigma Sigma, I usually get "are you a member of EEEEEEEE?" Gotta love it! I don't get offended- I find it kind of humorus.

I get that or I get the question from my kids "Why ya wearing all the E's Ms. D?"