What have people thought your letters spelled?

[AWJDZ]

I've gotten a lot of AZ too...they always think the Delta is an A!

[DawnDZ]

My mom tells people its triangle Z. She makes it sound more like a math equation then a sorority. Its Kind of funny. I have gotten the AZ also. I am always amazed when people don't know/realize they are greek letters.

[NinjaPoodle]

Originally posted by abaici
"AKA?? Also known as what??"

*Slight hijack*
Some years ago, I worked at a Non-profit womens self help group and 95% of the staff were women. Well, A new co-worker came to work wearing a pink top with a green blazer. The pink & green craze had not caught on back then so if you were wearing the combination, it was generally assumed you were an AKA. So I asked the woman (a black woman), "You're an AKA?" Her reply ""Yes, I'm also known as ME!" So I smiled and said "Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.? When did you cross?" The look she gave me was priceless. "Ummm, I'm not in a sorority."

Yeah...All righty then....
*End hijack*

[Akception]

Originally Posted by NinjaPoodle

*Slight hijack*
Some years ago, I worked at a Non-profit womens self help group and 95% of the staff were women. Well, A new co-worker came to work wearing a pink top with a green blazer. The pink & green craze had not caught on back then so if you were wearing the combination, it was generally assumed you were an AKA. So I asked the woman (a black woman), "You're an AKA?" Her reply ""Yes, I'm also known as ME!" So I smiled and said "Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.? When did you cross?" The look she gave me was priceless. "Ummm, I'm not in a sorority."

Yeah...All righty then....
*End hijack*

lol...If I had a nickle...lol

[twinkle555]

one of friends in another sorority told me how one of her kids she watches asked what "triangle x" was since she was wearing a Delta Chi shirt (it is her boyfriends fraterity)..i thought that was sooo cute!!

then we went on to try some of the other greek orgs on campus as if a kid was saying it...turns out we think little kids would say Chi Omega would be "x horseshoe" and AOII would be "A O table" lol!

[speedsters]

Originally Posted by twinkle555

one of friends in another sorority told me how one of her kids she watches asked what "triangle x" was since she was wearing a Delta Chi shirt (it is her boyfriends fraterity)..i thought that was sooo cute!!

then we went on to try some of the other greek orgs on campus as if a kid was saying it...turns out we think little kids would say Chi Omega would be "x horseshoe" and AOII would be "A O table" lol!

my younger sister is a freshman in college, but doesn't know the greek alphabet, so when i was asking her what sororities she has on campus, she actually said, x horseshoe for chio when trying to describe it.

luckily as a ZTA, i don't really get funny stares for my letters.

[Denise_DPhiE]

Good thread!

Brings back memories of spring break in Daytona FL (looooong ago) and a cute but very drunk non-greek boy said "Hey, that says Triangle Circle Square" thought that was pretty funny and asute, albeit incoherent.

[BSUPhiSig'92]

A few years ago at our activities fair at the beginning of the year, this student, who I later found out was our resident....
umm... person with significant psychological issues. Came up and asked me why the Greek letters didn't spell words. Like CAT and BAG. I explained to him that the letters all had deeper symbolism and meaning, but uh-uh, he wasn't going for that. He started demanding to know why they didn't spell words, and going off on how stupid he thought it was that they didn't spell them! He then started yelling it, and wouldn't leave, so I had to grab a campus security officer to escort him away! In the meantime, all of our fraternity men were laughing their asses off, because when he started asking them they said, "We don't know, but go ask our Greek Advisor, he'll know why."

[krystle]

Originally posted by SapphireSphinx9
i've heard "what's oee?" and a couple of people had said, "why are you wearing pee on your shirt??"

haha!

I've head the OEEEEE thing before.
My friend Joe likes to make a joke out of it. Haha.

[AOIIsilver]

"Hmmmm...AOII= Alpha Omega Pi"....Which then is quickly followed by..."Isn't that the sorority that Christina Ricci is in during the movie Pumpkin?"

What truly amazes me are OTHER GREEKS who do not know appropriate Greek letters!

Silver

[Lady Pi Phi]

I've never heard anyone think my letters spelled something different.

One time though, the chapter president at the time and I were joking around about people who didn't know the Greek alphabet and might think our letters said T T B O I.

Yeah, you had to be there...that or maybe it's just seems funnier in my head

[KAPital PHINUst]

Originally Posted by Lady Pi Phi

One time though, the chapter president at the time and I were joking around about people who didn't know the Greek alphabet and might think our letters said T T B O I.

Yeah, you had to be there...that or maybe it's just seems funnier in my head

Actually I have heard of T.T. Boi (Boy), aka Philip Rivera, so (I think) I know where you're coming from.

[REE1993]

People used to ask me what R E E was. Hence my username lol.

[Akception]

"Also known as what?" People can be such dorks!!

[AlphaFrog]

I didn't read the whole thread, but Sheila, did you tell the one about the Alumnae PHC President who announced us as "Alpha Epsilon Alpha"?