What have people thought your letters spelled?

[Pike_Cardinal]

If I ever get asled why Pi K A's are called pikes again I will kill something, lol

[epchick]

I went to Jamba Juice with some of my sisters this past Thursday, and the girl at the register looked at my letters and said "how you say that?" I told her it was pronounced "Alpha Fee."

This was her response:

"Never heard of them...only heard of Delta and AKA" Ok, so pronounced AKA like "akka" I stood there dumfounded because 1) it took me a little while to register who the f-- "akka" was, and 2) that she actually said "akka"

[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]

I went to the store the other day and this kid that I went to high school with was ringing me out. He saw that my shirt had my letters (Phi Mu) on it and it said "Penn State" underneath it because Panhellenic made each chapter buy these shirts for events so we are all uniform. He looked down at my shirt and said-"What's Eye-Ohme"? I had no clue what he was talking about until I realized he was looking at my chest. I had to hold back laughter when I was like, "Um...it's Phi Mu-it's my sorority at Penn State"...He then proceeded to ask me which comes first a Bachelor's degree, Associate's or Master's degree. I was stunned by his questions and just answered them but, all the while I couldn't help but, wonder how someone could graduate high school (even if barely) and not know the order of the degrees....All together-I was stunned by the situation..."EYE-OHME"..honestly....

[TotallyWicked]

ATA and AYA, ATA pops up way more though

[Elephant Walk]

Originally Posted by Xylochick216

Some girl on a campus tour I was giving last year asked if we had the triple-E sorority, referring to Tri-Sigma

Actually, there is a triple E sorority, though it's more of an eating club at Henderson St.? or OBU one of the two. EEE. I doubt it's national.

[SalukiPhiSig]

There's an inside joke within my chapter, a year or so ago (before I was even out of high school). Some random inebriated passers-by were walking past our chapter house and started shouting at some of the brothers. "You frats think you're so special with your I-O backwards alligator mouth K.

I'm still not sure why a Sigma is a backwards alligator mouth, lol

[ZChi4Life]

My favorite lines from people ...

"Oh look, it's the ZEX girls!"

"Wow, your letters spell SEX!"

If I had a nickel....

[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....

[I_Heart_Sigma]

We often get EMO. "But why are you so emo? Does your sorority make you sad?" I have been threatening to get argyle letters and dark rimmed glasses for a while.

We also get SMO-- like I Want S'MO Sigma

[soul_anna4]

We get...ooooh yeah! You guys are the ONE girls!