What have people thought your letters spelled?

[ZZ-kai-]

Not sure, but it looks like a CA house for sure....

[Lindz928]

I was at a fraternity rush event a few years ago with my (now ex) boyfriend. We were talking to a rushee, when he looked at my shirt and said, "Oh, you're an ADP?" (Instead of ADPi). Yeah, he didn't get it too wrong, but we could tell he was just trying to look like he knew what he was talking about to impress the brothers. It was kinda funny.

[KSUViolet06]

If I had a dime for everytime someone said "You're in the one that has 3 purple E's on the house"..........

[BabyP]

Originally posted by 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!"

I am so GUILTY of that... I am used to seeing it as AON that even though I know the alphabet by heart its easier for me to think it that way.. I am so bad sorry

We have been reffered as O.D.

[ejbiff]

As a member of Sigma Sigma Sigma, I usually get "are you a member of EEEEEEEE?" Gotta love it! I don't get offended- I find it kind of humorus.

[Shima-Mizu]

When I went to get a chain for my lavalier, the lady asked "are those your initials?"

ok, even if my initials were "kkr" (they're ccg by the way) the K's wouldn't be capitalized and the "r" be the only thing that was a lowercase....

Silly walmart lady.

[CanadianZete]

Zeta Psi
What does a z and a pitchfork mean, or one time I got is that some kind of australian symbol?? Not sure where the second one came from.

[TigerLilly]

I've had someone think the X was an equals sign, and that my shirt read "A = D" as some weird math equation.

[aephi alum]

Some of my friends called the Zeta Psi house "Zeta Pitchfork" We also had a chapter of Theta Chi, that kept getting read as OX - they went with it, and called their rush "OX HUNT".

I was a chapter founder of AEPhi at a school that had had a chapter of AEPi for a long time. I kept getting asked when I'd become a little sister of AEPi, or who my boyfriend in AEPi was, or when AEPi had gone coed. You would think that at an engineering school, people could tell the difference between pi and phi.

Before I was an AEPhi, I was in a local sorority called Sigma Iota Phi. People thought my letters spelled "sip". It didn't help that intramural sports teams from GLOs got a 2 or 3 letter designation based on the Greek letters for use on schedules and rosters, and our code was SIP. "Yeah, we're playing the Sips today..."

It was very common for student organizations other than GLOs to "adopt" Greek letters and make up lettered shirts (e.g. Lecture Series Committee = LSC = LSC. One group, the Student Information Processing Board (SIPB), had adopted the letters SPB. I used to get "Sigma Iota Phi... ohhh, you must be in SIPB!"

[ZTA1806]

My favorite guesses come from e-bay.

Some badge sellers who have no idea what they are offering have some pretty silly listings. Like on our badge, the name of our patron goddess, Themis, is written in greek, upper and lower cases. The descriptions for that can be a hoot.

It does make me wonder, do none of these people have a dictionary? The greek alphabet is there, and easy to check. Anyway, when you read what they have them listed as, and then see what the letters really are... makes you wonder!

[ilovemyglo]

When I got my first lettered shirt I came home and my mom looked at it funny and finally said
"I thought you joined AGD?"
I replied "I did!"
to which she said
"Then why does it say A R Triangle?"

My mom didnt go to college, btw.

[AngelPhiSig]

I get I OEE a lot......

and TBE.... Tee Beee

Funny thing is, my TBS class is Beta Epsilon.

I know a lot of Theta Chi's that call themselves the Oxes.... well it should be oxen, thats why it was weird for me to type "Oxes"

[veemers]

Theta is abbreviated in our Res Life office as TPG. Once in a while, I refer to it as such, and my aunt once asked me if it stood for "Toilet Paper Girls".....

....not quite....

[MSUgreek]

We all know that Sigma Delta Tau has it pretty bad with the EAT similarity (people in the past have in fact wrote me on our house under the letters), but when saying the letters, sdt, often times people mess up and call us STD's.

[alphagambaby]

I always get "hey, what's ARA stand for?"

Sarah, at least your mom was smart enough to realize that there is a difference between a capital A and a triangle... stupid Tennesseans