Mixed Up/Unusual Names Someone Has Called Your Org.

[CutiePie2000]

Originally posted by SigPiTO
Also, my gf is a Theta at the university of Western Ontario and I know they call Gamma Phi Beta, Gamma Phi. I think it would get confusing with Beta (Beta Theta Pi) there.

I agree 100% with you. However, I have to qualify what I posted earlier in this thread.....
In about 1988, when I was interested in going Greek, and I met an AOII from UWO and Gamma Phi Beta was just coming onto campus at UWO as a new NPC group, and that AOII girl DEFINITELY referred to them as "Beta" (because I corrected her and said "Don't you mean Gamma Phi?". However, the name obviously did not stick!

[KillarneyRose]

Originally posted by UMgirl

Then I was talking to a sigma chi who saw my letters in my aol screen name and he said, "So you're and Alpha Delt" Im thinking to myself I've never even heard ADPi get called Alpha Delt.

Actually, the ADPis on my campus all wore jackets that said "Alpha Delts" on the back but I'm not familiar with any other chapter calling themselves that. Not that I know THAT many ADPis, though.

I've had people asking me what "AZ" stands for when I am wearing letters. Someone asked me once if I was from Arizona

[BrandiDZ]

Killarney, I get the same question- What does AZ stand for? It's usually friends from high school who have no knowledge of greek life. It always cracks me up though, I would ask what does triangle z stand for before AZ. Who knows! It makes me laugh every time though!

[TriDeltaGal]

I've never really heard of someone mistaking Delta Delta Delta for something else or by a different nickname but my Dad who wasn't Greek in college loves to say "Delta Delta Delta? isn't that like Lambda Lambda Lambda i.e. the fraternity in the movie Nerds, to make irritate and tease me! However, people as mistake me when I say I am an A-CHI-O legacy for an A CHI-O legacy when I say it fast in conversation.

[lyrelyre]

I have a lot of people think that A-Chi-O and Chi-O are the same thing. I'll wear a shirt and someone will say "Oh, my daughter's a Chi O too." We always have a few confused parents at the wrong house on Bid Day.

[ZetaLuvBunny]

A lot of people seem to not know how to pronounce "tau" as in Zeta Tau Alpha. I've heard everything from "tow" (like "towel"), "toe", "tay-you" to "ta" (with the 'a' as in tassle). It's pronounced "taw" to rhyme with "saw". Seems everyone knows we go by Zeta, but they sometimes get the full name confused with Zeta Phi Beta who also go by Zeta.

[FuzzieAlum]

I was at a very nice department store in Chicago in an AXD letter shirt. The girl at the counter looked at me and said, "Oh! I used to be in a sorority. I know that's an Alpha, but what are the other two letters?"

I'm thinking, OK, Xi is an unusual letter, but I learned Delta long before I was Greek in high school chemistry! How does a Greek not know a Delta?

[Senusret I]

I wore my APO letters at a party and this girl walked ALL THE WAY across the room to say hello to me JUST BECAUSE she thought I was an Alpha. She was non-Greek.

Woman on the subway, noticing my keychain: "My son is an Alpha, too!" That's great! Too bad I'm in APO. ..

I also have been mistaken for an Omega (Psi Phi) by people who don't know any better.

Pre-frosh at orientation: "I see by your letters that you are a Que, could you tell us a little about Greek life?"

That's it for now. . .

Originally posted by pirate00
For some strange reason, some people, mainly African-Americans who are non-Greek, love to confuse Alpha Phi Omega, with Alpha Phi Alpha. It's hilarious!! The minute someone sees the first 2 letters on my sweater, they don't even give my Omega the second look, they come and say, "Oh you're an "Alpha", alright!" And everytime I have to correct them on the difference between the two. Some even get the impression that APO is a LOCAL fraternity!! OK, once and for all here is some obvious differences between the 2 GLO's:

Alpha Phi Omega: Founded 12/16/1925
Alpha Phi Alpha: Founded 12/04/1906
APO: Colors- Blue and Gold
APA: Colors- Black and Old Gold
APO: International Co-ed Service Fraternity
APA: Historically Black all-male Fraternity

...Just to name a few.

-pirate00

"In founding Alpha Phi Omega, not only was a new fraternity formed, but also an entirely new type of fraternity was formed ... dedicated to serving others ..." -Donald Terwilliger, Founding member

[ShaedyKD]

An old boyfriend, who happened to be friends with several Kappa Alpha's, used to say things like, "So, are you going out with your Kappa Alpha girls tonight?" Then he has the nerve to say, "They're just letters, not like they mean anything" after I repeatedly corrected him. Oh shoot, I went off, telling him that they do happen to stand for something and they are very special to my sisters and I. That's some non-greeks for you!

The cutest is when my little brother calls me a Kappa Triangle. Spoken like a true 12 year old...

~ A proud Kappa DELTA

My freshman year, before I was greek at my school, all the fraternities use to go around and put flyers under dorm doors for their parties. Well ATO always put one under ours and not knowing, we would say hey you wanna go to AT-O tonight, instead of A-T-O.

[Peaches-n-Cream]

When Beta Theta Pi first arrived, one of my sisters say the guys wearing letters. From a distance the theta looked like an O so she called them BOP like TEP. The guys said that no one called them BOP at any other chapter, but we liked it so it stuck.
When I was a freshman pledge, a woman from one of my classes who knew nothing about greeklife asked me why some many women were wearing eat across their chests. I had no idea what she meant until she pointed and said there's another one. She thought that SDT looked like EAT.

[lilsnakeyk]

You wouldn't think that Sigma Kappa would be tough to say. But, my pledge semester, the pledge class president from TKE called me up to schedule a mixer, and said, "We are so excited to have a mixer with you Kappa Sigma girls, you are so hot." I didn't really mind the "so hot" comment, but gosh darn we're Sigma Kappa, and there is actually a Kappa Sigma chapter on our campus, you would think this guy could get it straight.

[SATX*APhi]

The only thins about Alpha Phi that I have heard, is a mispronunciation. People will say "ALPHA FIE" and nope, it is "ALPHA FEE."

[KSig RC]

Originally posted by lilsnakeyk
You wouldn't think that Sigma Kappa would be tough to say. But, my pledge semester, the pledge class president from TKE called me up to schedule a mixer, and said, "We are so excited to have a mixer with you Kappa Sigma girls, you are so hot." I didn't really mind the "so hot" comment, but gosh darn we're Sigma Kappa, and there is actually a Kappa Sigma chapter on our campus, you would think this guy could get it straight.

Yeah this happens to us sometimes too - very whack, very funny

[gamma_girl52]

Brothers dardenr and pirate00, I had things like that happen to me too...

Most of the time people will think I'm a member of Delta Sigma Theta because of my letters. I can remember one time I was in my car at a stop light and a woman pulled up next to me (I have a GSS tag on the back of my car). She was like, "Hey Soror!" and I was like, "Oh...hi..." thinking that she may have been a Gamma Sig. She asked me if I was in Delta and I had to say no, but I think we both felt pretty silly

Another time a lot of my sisters and myself were at a Wal-Mart during our National Convention. You know how it is at Wal-Mart: we're just walking around, chillin. Well another young lady that walked by us with her shopping cart WHIPPED around and started back towards us. She came up to us and greeted us, giving us hugs and everything! She said, "I'm in Kappa Sigma chapter at East Carolina" (we're in Greenville)! "Is there something big going on this weekend?" We knew something was up because GSS doesn't even have chapters starting with Kappa yet So I tell her, "We're in Gamma Sigma Sigma" and she goes, "Oh, I thought you were in DST, my bad!" Sorry to burst your bubble...

I think it's because people just see the Sigma in the middle of my car tag or shirt, or that my sorority's colors are Maroon and White and DST is Crimson and Creme. Another time I had somebody ask me, "What does T-E-E mean" No sweetie. This is a Gamma and those are two Sigmas.