Your letters scambled?

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by LaneSig

Have you ever been confused for Phi Mu Delta? Just curious.

Not in my experience. The confusion with Phi Mu comes when people try to shorten our name (a la "Lambda Chi") by dropping the Alpha.

[honeychile]

There's also the nickname part: Kappas to NPC people are Kappa Kappa Gamma; to historically black fraternities, Kappa Alpha Psi. (I think!)


I think a better word than scramble is confused.

[psusue]

Or Sigma Sigma Sigma and Phi Beta Sigma. My favorite though is when I initiated into Tri Sigma and my friend in Phi Beta Sigma was like "we're both Sigmas now!" It was cute.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by honeychile

There's also the nickname part: Kappas to NPC people are Kappa Kappa Gamma; to historically black fraternities, Kappa Alpha Psi. (I think!)

Correct. Most people can tell by the conversation which Kappa is being referenced so I doubt there is much confusion.

When I was in college, people would say "KKG" or "KappaKappaGamma" (very quickly) and never said "Kappa" in reference to Kappa Kappa Gamma. And we didn't even have a Kappa Alpha Psi chapter on the campus.

When I hear "Kappa" I think Kappa Alpha Psi and the people I talk to (in real life) are always talking about Kappa Alpha Psi when they say "Kappa."

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by psusue

Or Sigma Sigma Sigma and Phi Beta Sigma. My favorite though is when I initiated into Tri Sigma and my friend in Phi Beta Sigma was like "we're both Sigmas now!" It was cute.

I doubt there is any confusion there. It's all about the context. LOL.

Sigma means Phi Beta Sigma to everyone (in real life) I talk about Greekdom with.

[barbino]

Originally Posted by crosscaravan

Yup. It's really only an issue among people who insist on shortening the names to Phi Pi and Pi Phi and getting them mixed up. The full names are much more difficult to scramble and confuse.

There is also Phi Kappa Psi. One of my brothers was a Phi Psi. Between Pi Phi and Phi Psi, I'm surprized my non-Greek mother managed.

[violetpretty]

One of my sisters accidentally bought a Kappa Sigma window cling for her little. In her defense, they are inside application, so they are printed backwards.

[SAITrump]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Never seen an issue with scrambling of letters, but I have heard of confusion in the names for two- and three-letter orgs where the first two letters are the same,e.g., Phi Mu and Phi Mu Alpha. Yes, I've heard some people who don't know better refer to us as Phi Mu.

There has been some confusion on my campus over the two that happen to share the first two letters, SAE and SAI. Though SAI is never officially given a hall (there are no houses for sororities), we tend to block together when possible and display our letters outside our door. That happened pretty strongly this year. Our neighbor hall? SAE.

[psusue]

Originally Posted by SAITrump

There has been some confusion on my campus over the two that happen to share the first two letters, SAE and SAI. Though SAI is never officially given a hall (there are no houses for sororities), we tend to block together when possible and display our letters outside our door. That happened pretty strongly this year. Our neighbor hall? SAE.

It'd be even more confusing if you had Sigma Alpha on your campus, the agricultural interest sorority.

[aephi alum]

Originally Posted by violetpretty

One of my sisters accidentally bought a Kappa Sigma window cling for her little. In her defense, they are inside application, so they are printed backwards.

I'm sorry, this made me lol. My school has chapters of both Kappa Sigma and Sigma Kappa. More than once, a PNM, asked where she's preffing, has said, "Alpha Phi and Kappa Sigma." hee hee

There was a thread on this a while back, about GLOs with similar letters and the confusion that often resulted. Kappa Sigma and Sigma Kappa; Alpha Epsilon Phi and Alpha Epsilon Pi; Phi Sigma Kappa, Phi Kappa Sigma, Phi Kappa Theta; Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Sigma Phi Epsilon; Theta Chi and Theta Xi - all these GLOs have or have had chapters at my school, and confusion did occur.

[excelblue]

Originally Posted by BumbleBeeofDDD

Heh, it would be hard for someone to scramble Delta Delta Delta.

You'd be surprised; scrambling can happen in many more ways than just the letters themselves.

For someone inexperienced with Greek Letters, it's just "Triangles"

As for my own fraternity, Triangle, I have been asked by several non-Greeks if I was a "Tri-Delt" when I wear my "letter." It's basically a T inscribed inside a Delta (kind of looks like /T\). It gets very annoying.

[maverickmagali]

Originally Posted by honeychile

I don't know of any campuses where there is both Alpha Delta Pi and Alpha Delta Phi, but I can imagine that would cause problems


I have heard of people confuse Alpha Epsilon Pi and Alpha Epsilon Phi.

At UCal Berkeley, there's an Alpha Delta Pi and an Alpha Delta Phi, as well as an Alpha Delta Chi. Haha, talk about confusion. I stayed at the Alpha Delta Phi chapter house for a few days over spring break last year and we certainly got people knocking on the door asking for Alpha Delta Pi.

[excelblue]

Originally Posted by maverickmagali

At UCal Berkeley, there's an Alpha Delta Pi and an Alpha Delta Phi, as well as an Alpha Delta Chi. Haha, talk about confusion. I stayed at the Alpha Delta Phi chapter house for a few days over spring break last year and we certainly got people knocking on the door asking for Alpha Delta Pi.

Cal student here. The reality of the situation is that we just have a local nickname for Alpha Delta Phi: AquaDelt. That's because their chapter house is the only one on campus with a swimming pool.