What have people thought your letters spelled?

[kateshort]

When I was in my local, Delta Chi Epsilon, everyone thought it said "AXE".

(So much so that there were numerous street signs from Axe Avenue hanging in sisters' dorm rooms...)

[tnxbutterfly]

Mine is obvious. You can just look at my letters and imagine the sort of questions I get asked

[Hpnotiq-Deepher]

yea theta nu xi looks like the word "one"
i always thought that was so creative cuz it goes well with ur purpose!

[MsCongeniality3]

My pharmacist was an ATO in the 50s and kept telling people that he wasn't in a fraternity but they were produce people... apples, tomatoes, and oranges. That was at UF

[LatinaAlumna]

I get "A-O-N" a lot, but the first time I heard it was from a greek, and he was serious!!

Also, some people have said our letters look like AVON (as in the make-up line), and others say it looks like NOV upside down. Someone once said "you must have been founded in November!"

[ADPiSAI]

Some random guy stopped one of my sisters on the street a few months ago when she was wearing letters, saying, "Hey, are you an Alpha Triangle Pi? You guys rock!" Ok, buddy...

I've also heard somebody refer to us as Alpha Triangle Table.

[Rio_Kohitsuji]

I get the, "What's with the upside-down V, O, and a pitchfork?"

[tunatartare]

I'm Russian and some Greek letters look like Russian ones. One time I went into the Russian grocery store in my neighborhood wearing my letters and the salesclerk wanted to know what my shirt said because the Kappa and the Lambda are the same as the Russian K and L letters but there is no Psi in Russian. He thought it was an acronym for something and that I've just been in America for so long that I started to forget the Russian alphabet and make up letters that were never actually in it...

[bethmousey]

Chi exchange... I got it (psych-stats here)!

Our brother house on campus was Delta Tau Delta, but we always referred to them as the Triangle-T-Triangles. Delta joke, I guess

My favorite one is when my non-Greek boyfriend and I discuss organizations. He's a math doctoral student, so he pronounces the letters differently than I do.

[FAB*SpiceySpice]

Originally posted by bethmousey

Our brother house on campus was Delta Tau Delta, but we always referred to them as the Triangle-T-Triangles. Delta joke, I guess

My friends and I still call the Delts this...my ex boyfriend is a Delt and he just *loved* it when we talked about their house as the Triangle T Triangle house. It started freshman year though when none of us knew the greek letters, but we kept it around just b/c we thought it was funny and we're dorks.

[SIAsensacion]

I've had people say to me "C.I.A.?" or "Why are you wearing a C.I.A. shirt?" Ummmm, last time I checked, a S looks NOTHING like a C!!!!!

People have also thought my letters were "E I A". But I guess when you have things like "My Big, Fat, GrSSk Wedding", people are going to thing that a sigma is an E.

[KO_Pike]

I went to the doctor's for a check up and I was wearing my letters. Passing through all the nurses they said, "Do those letters mean No Known Allergies?" That was a moment...

[ZZ-kai-]

This one takes the cake for Beta:

[kateshort]

My husband suggests these two:

Phi Mu Alpha, Kappa Sigma chapter, they made into OMARS. 'Cause a K and an R look so much alike.

Then you had all the engineers who were thinking "Force times Mass equals Acceleration" ...

[TriDeltaGal]

zz-kai,
If I'm not mistaken, I think that is the Beta house up at UCSB. I had a couple of friends that were brothers up there.