What have people thought your letters spelled?

[33girl]

Originally posted by AngelPhiSig
I know a lot of Theta Chi's that call themselves the Oxes.... well it should be oxen, thats why it was weird for me to type "Oxes"

LOL. They used to FREAK if you called them "Ox" to their face or called it the "Ox House...."

Ali, are you going to ALF?

[preciousjeni]

It really kills me when Greeks don't know the Greek alphabet!!!

[TNPhiMu]

There's a professsor here that has, for the past... well, probably since we were founded here, called us the "QM's". He knows what it really is of course, but it's kinda cute. Last year during recruitment, we had camo shirts and he kept telling everyone he was seeing a QM army everywhere.

[PhoenixAzul]

Hehe, one sorority on our campus is Sigma Alpha Tau ( Think about that for a minute), but it intentionally spells the word Eat, after the intentions of their founders. We also have Theta Nu (not to be confused with Theta Nu Xi), but people call it the ON house..jokingly saying they're going to take the Nu off and put up two FF's one day. My house gets T-Triangle a lot. Or TA which is REALLY embarassing. My sisters joked that it would be hillarious of someone stuck Sigma in front of Tau Delta...the STD house. Stupid greek joke. We also have Eta Phi Mu (which looks like HIM) which I'm not sure was an accident, they were founded as a christian men's fraternity, and their nickname is Jonda, as in Jonathan and David from the Bible). Poor Zeta Phi, they get asked if they're related to Zeta Phi Beta a LOT, even though their colors are nothing a like and nor are their members. People made up their nicknames from their letters too...Sigma Delta Phi= Sphinx. But people don't make the connection between what everyone calls them and their letters, which is hillarious. "I just came from the Sphinx house, now I'm going to Sigma Delta Phi."

[preciousjeni]

Originally posted by PhoenixAzul
My sisters joked that it would be hillarious of someone stuck Sigma in front of Tau Delta...the STD house.

Sigma Tau Delta is an English honor fraternity.

[chopperLI905]

i get some people that ask me what AXA is. But i dont understande how you could get AXA from LCA.

[audaz49]

my letters are Sigma Lambda Gamma, so I ALWAYS get, why does your shirt say EAR??? (a few of the greeks on this campus do it on purpose, but some people are SERIOUS)

[CutiePie2000]

Originally posted by GeekyPenguin
We get ROB a lot too - especially from parents.

Ah...you have to love parents. The Dad of a Dee Gee girl that I knew always called DG "Triangle Hook". Back in the day, they had sweattops that said, "I'm a DG Dad".

So her clever Daddy was pointing at the pictures and saying I'M A TRIANGLE HOOK DAD!"

[kk_bama]

Originally posted by Shima-Mizu
When I went to get a chain for my lavalier, the lady asked "are those your initials?"

ok, even if my initials were "kkr" (they're ccg by the way) the K's wouldn't be capitalized and the "r" be the only thing that was a lowercase....

Silly walmart lady.

That's so funny because my initials ARE "kkr!"

[BlondeGurl]

i've had people prounounce phi "phee"

What I have heard is that if Phi has a greek letter that starts with a vowel in front of it then it is pronounced "phee" (ex Alpha Phi) but if it starts with a consonant or if there is another greek letter behind it then it is pronounced "phi" (ex Phi Delta Theta or Sigma Phi Epsilon) ... I heard this from an Alpha Phi ... so I assume it is true.

Also being in Tri-Sigma I hear a lot of " Are you in triple E? " and also it is prnounced as "EEEEEEE!" I find it very humorous. I think its funny that non-greeks dont know what a sigma is. they all think it is an E.

[MysticCat]

Originally posted by BlondeGurl
What I have heard is that if Phi has a greek letter that starts with a vowel in front of it then it is pronounced "phee" (ex Alpha Phi) but if it starts with a consonant or if there is another greek letter behind it then it is pronounced "phi" (ex Phi Delta Theta or Sigma Phi Epsilon) ... I heard this from an Alpha Phi ... so I assume it is true.

You, and many others, assume incorrectly. This is an old Greek urban legend.

Yes, sometimes the pronunciation of the sounds that letters represent changes based on what is around them -- "C" is typically pronounced "s" before i or e and "k" before a, o or u. But "fee" (or "fie") is the name of the letter F -- the sound is simply "ff." The idea that the pronunciation of the name of F changes beased on whether a vowel is in front of it is the equivalent of saying that the letter F is called "eff" if a vowel precedes it "eeff" if a consonant precedes it.

It's very simple -- "Fee" is the Greek pronunciation, "Fie" is the American Anglicized pronunciation. Most GLOs use the Amercian Anglicized pronunciations for Greek letters, but some GLOs, such as Alpha Phi, use the Greek pronunciations, at least in some instances such as their names.

[roqueemae]

In a graduate level psyc statistics class list night my teacher was talking about how much he loves statistics (yuck). When he was working on his PhD he was so involved in it so everything came back to statistics for him.

In statistics S means "sum of" and N means "number"

He laughed when he saw a Sigma Nu with the letters on his car. All he could think was "wow that guy loves statistics too" A woman in class said "In college I was on Sum of the Number Rose Court." All of the greeks in class laughed while the rest looked at us dumbfounded.

[Optimist Prime]

Originally posted by roqueemae
In a graduate level psyc statistics class list night my teacher was talking about how much he loves statistics (yuck). When he was working on his PhD he was so involved in it so everything came back to statistics for him.

In statistics S means "sum of" and N means "number"

He laughed when he saw a Sigma Nu with the letters on his car. All he could think was "wow that guy loves statistics too" A woman in class said "In college I was on Sum of the Number Rose Court." All of the greeks in class laughed while the rest looked at us dumbfounded.

LOL I love stories like that.

[KSUViolet06]

I get "CCC" and "EEE" alot.

[Optimist Prime]

Some chapters hate being called OX. Some chapters sell girls t shirts and panties that say I want some OX in my BOX using Thetas. I'll post a link later. Our chapter has never been called OX. We did the Rho Chi on campus so everyone knows who we are. Theta Chi.