GLO Nicknames

[GeekyPenguin]

preciousjeni's original post reminded me of something: Whenever I wear my badge, someone inevitably pokes at it and says "I didn't know you were Jewish." (We have Hebrew letters on our badge.) I usually say "I'm not, it's my sorority badge." "But you're Catholic, why are you in a Jewish sorority?" "I'm not." "But only Jewish people use Hebrew..." BLEAH.

[honeychile]

One that I have heard differently from campus to campus is Pi Kappa Alpha. On some campuses, they're Pikes, on others, Pikas. They're Pikas at our school.

I've heard that Alpha Delta Pi is known as Alpha Delts, but for the most part, we're ADPi's.

I think that there are nasty names for every GLO, but [high horse] I refuse to use them [/high horse]!

[ADPiSAI]

at my school...

Alpha Delta Pi = ADPis or Pis
Alpha Phi = Phis
Sigma Chi = Sigs
Beta Theta Pi = Betas

Delta Omicrons go almost exclusively by "DO" 's. (each letter said seperately, not the word "do" which often confuses our NMs.

We did recieve word from Inter/Nationals my senior year of college that "referring to Delta Omicron by anything less than her full name was not to be permitted", but.... yeah, that didn't take. That's a lot of syllables to yell out across campus

On the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia thing... I went to school near GeekyPenguin, and the Sinfonians referred to themselves almost exclusively as "Phi Mu's". Occasionally you'd hear "Sinfonian", but that was rare. Phi Mu was the nickname they preferred.

Other chapters on my campus (ie. what the chapters called themselves):

Alpha Sigma: no nickname
Delta Zeta: DeeZee's
Sigma Sigma Sigma: Tri-Sigs (though I've since learned here that most chapters don't like this)
Tau Phi Lambda: Tau Phi's

Pi Kappa Alpha: Pikes
Delta Chi: no nickname
Lambda Chi Alpha: Lambda Chi's
Phi Chi Epsilon: Phi Chi's
Phi Sigma Kappa: Phi Sigs
Tau Kappa Epsilon: Tekes

[Glitter650]

Originally posted by BetaRose
My freshman year I found out the hard way that Pikes do not like to be called Pi Kapps. and SAE is not pronounced "say"

That's because Pi Kappa Phi is called Pi Kapp most of the time... they probably don't want to be confused....



Phi Sigma Sigma is Phi Sig... not much else we can be... although I know there's a fraternity that usues phi sig as well... but we dont' have them on campus... but people have told me "phi sig ??that's a fraternity" if they don't have Phi Sigma Sigma on campus...

[EGDeepher]

On my campus we have Phi Sigma Sigma and Phi Sigma Kappa.

To avoid confusion the girls go by Phi Sig and the guys go by Piskies.