What have people thought your letters spelled?

[GeekyPenguin]

Originally posted by GPhiLlama
My chapter has gotten "ROB" a lot. So when we wear the "I love" buttons, we keep getting asked, "Who's Rob?"

We get ROB a lot too - especially from parents.

[AlethiaSi]

my letters are Nu Sigma Chi (i don't feel like busting out the symbol font)

people think it spells NEX (as in next....)
they see the sigma- and think my shirt says SEX
we're known as N E X (which drives me crazy- but its been around too long to banish it)

our lettes on the house were pulled off by one of the frats- and so it spelled VEX and then the rest of the N was gone- so apparently we were Sigma Chi (and a sophomore was overheard by a sister saying- oh there is a party at the old sigma chi house... )

i've had people prounounce phi "phee"

[pHiSiG cHiCkAdE]

Originally posted by PoohsHoneyBee
i've had people prounounce phi "phee"

Maybe they're confused with Alpha Phi? hmm Completely random but when I was pledging I remember being SO confused by Alpha Phi. They weren't rushing girls when I went through rush so I didn't hear about then until I got into the greek system. I remember going over the Greek Alphabet in my head thinking, where is there a "PHEE"?? Alright I'm done with the randomness now...

[jennie3576]

Originally Posted by pHiSiG cHiCkAdE

Maybe they're confused with Alpha Phi? hmm Completely random but when I was pledging I remember being SO confused by Alpha Phi. They weren't rushing girls when I went through rush so I didn't hear about then until I got into the greek system. I remember going over the Greek Alphabet in my head thinking, where is there a "PHEE"?? Alright I'm done with the randomness now...

My husband is an AFD. A bunch of years back, they had a pledge from Greece. He had to unlearn the proper Greek alphabet, in order to learn the collegiate one. "PHI" is apparently phee when pronounced correctly. Mu & nu are me-uuu and ne-uuu, not moo and nu. Beta is beeta. I like the collegiate way better!

Anywho, mine don't get pronounced as a word, but are often mistaken for AET. I get the "why do you only use regular letters?" um....it's a sigma! and regardless - it's an alpha & a tau, too!

[als463]

Originally Posted by jennie3576

My husband is an AFD. A bunch of years back, they had a pledge from Greece. He had to unlearn the proper Greek alphabet, in order to learn the collegiate one. "PHI" is apparently phee when pronounced correctly. Mu & nu are me-uuu and ne-uuu, not moo and nu. Beta is beeta. I like the collegiate way better!

Anywho, mine don't get pronounced as a word, but are often mistaken for AET. I get the "why do you only use regular letters?" um....it's a sigma! and regardless - it's an alpha & a tau, too!

This is random but, please tell me how you made the greek letters on here. In fact, if you know how to do the same for Greek letters on both Myspace and Facebook-would you give me a heads up on how to do it...I'm a computer illiterate but, I'm doin' the opposite....Although I was asked what "I-ome" meant....I wanted to put my "Letters" on my pages for my Non-Greek Friends at home that might pronounce it "Moo" because I hate to have to keep explaining that it's "Mew".....

[Denise_DPhiE]

Originally Posted by jennie3576

My husband is an AFD. A bunch of years back, they had a pledge from Greece. He had to unlearn the proper Greek alphabet, in order to learn the collegiate one. "PHI" is apparently phee when pronounced correctly.

True. Met a very cute guy on Spring Break many many years ago who was from Greece and when saw me letters (apparently I was the first sorority/fraternity person he saw when he hit the beach) and he said, "Oh, Delta Fee Epsilon" and proceeds to flirt with me speaking GREEK. Played a long for a while (only because he was cute, mind you) and then had to let him in on the who social greek letter thing. I really loved the way he said it, though.

Thanks for the flashback

[guardedbystars]

Originally Posted by Denise_DPhiE

True. Met a very cute guy on Spring Break many many years ago who was from Greece and when saw me letters (apparently I was the first sorority/fraternity person he saw when he hit the beach) and he said, "Oh, Delta Fee Epsilon" and proceeds to flirt with me speaking GREEK. Played a long for a while (only because he was cute, mind you) and then had to let him in on the who social greek letter thing. I really loved the way he said it, though.

Thanks for the flashback

AHHH!!! That is SO cute. I've always wondered if people from Greece get GLO's confused!

[ZTABullwinkle]

I'll never forget meeting one of my future sisters at an informal recruitment event from Greece. It was really funny to hear how different a Greek person says their alphabet. It was something we laughed about quite a bit that night when she was telling us about having to relearn the alphabet.

I also thank you for the memories....

[kateshort]

When I was in my local, Delta Chi Epsilon, everyone thought it said "AXE".

(So much so that there were numerous street signs from Axe Avenue hanging in sisters' dorm rooms...)

[tnxbutterfly]

Mine is obvious. You can just look at my letters and imagine the sort of questions I get asked

[Hpnotiq-Deepher]

yea theta nu xi looks like the word "one"
i always thought that was so creative cuz it goes well with ur purpose!

[MsCongeniality3]

My pharmacist was an ATO in the 50s and kept telling people that he wasn't in a fraternity but they were produce people... apples, tomatoes, and oranges. That was at UF

[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!"

[ADPiSAI]

Some random guy stopped one of my sisters on the street a few months ago when she was wearing letters, saying, "Hey, are you an Alpha Triangle Pi? You guys rock!" Ok, buddy...

I've also heard somebody refer to us as Alpha Triangle Table.