Your letters scambled?

[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.

[LaneSig]

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.

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

[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.

[honeychile]

There's also the nickname part: Kappas to NPC people are Kappa Kappa Gamma; to historically black fraternities, Kappa Alpha Psi. (I think!)


I think a better word than scramble is confused.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by honeychile

There's also the nickname part: Kappas to NPC people are Kappa Kappa Gamma; to historically black fraternities, Kappa Alpha Psi. (I think!)

Correct. Most people can tell by the conversation which Kappa is being referenced so I doubt there is much confusion.

When I was in college, people would say "KKG" or "KappaKappaGamma" (very quickly) and never said "Kappa" in reference to Kappa Kappa Gamma. And we didn't even have a Kappa Alpha Psi chapter on the campus.

When I hear "Kappa" I think Kappa Alpha Psi and the people I talk to (in real life) are always talking about Kappa Alpha Psi when they say "Kappa."

[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.