What have people thought your letters spelled?

[AOII Angel]

I've been asked what A O T T means.

I read the post about people being confused about Alpha Phi pronouncing Phi as Phee. My husband is half-Greek...not by initiation but by birth to a man who immigrated from Greece. He says we pronounce many of the greek letters wrong. AOII should be Alpha Omicron Pee not Pie. Phi is pronounced Phee since there is no "I" sound in the greek language. Iota is Yota. I could go on but I won't!

I'm an A-O, A-O Cutie Cutie Pi!
And I'll be one til the day, the day I die!

[rufio]

i was in my campus greek life office picking up greek pages for my chapter and our package had a post it note on it with greek letters Delta Psi instead of Delta Upsilon. thanks asu greek life office for knowing which fraternities you have.

[SLGamma]

im from sigma lambda gamma and i get "wut's EAR or EAT?"

ha... annoyin!

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by SLGamma

wut's
[is] annoyin[g]!

Yes.

[Wolfman]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

I've been asked what A O T T means.

I read the post about people being confused about Alpha Phi pronouncing Phi as Phee. My husband is half-Greek...not by initiation but by birth to a man who immigrated from Greece. He says we pronounce many of the greek letters wrong. AOII should be Alpha Omicron Pee not Pie. Phi is pronounced Phee since there is no "I" sound in the greek language. Iota is Yota. I could go on but I won't!

I'm an A-O, A-O Cutie Cutie Pi!
And I'll be one til the day, the day I die!

I like this post. See, I used to teach NT Greek and we went over this stuff in differentiating between the ancient and Modern Greek pronunciations. In my Fraternity, you can tell who are real "old school" brothers (made in the '40s or older) by the way they pronounce Omega in the name of the Fraternity. Not "O-may-ga" but "O-me-ga." This is in accordance with proper pronunciation.

[Salamandar]

a few years back my pledge bro was walking though campus wearing a Sigma Nu belt buckle he made and this guy thought that his name was Ian

[be69chevy]

Have had other greeks that have seen stuff on the internet and think Sigma Nu stands for Sons of Napoleon.


OK

[AlethiaSi]

most non greek people call us Nu Epsilon Chi (N E X) rather than Nu Sigma Chi.... we're used to it but its still annoying... (we usually call ourselves nu sig)