Mixed Up/Unusual Names Someone Has Called Your Org.

[GammaPhiBabe]

"One thing was a baseball cap for fathers that said "I'm a Delta Gamma [in the letters] Dad". So her Dad saw this and said, I'm a Triangle Hook Dad!"

That is hilarious!!

[33girl]

Originally posted by JezebelASA
On my campus, we have Alpha Sigma Alpha and Alpha Sigma Tau. A lot of the stuff we see from nationals calls us Alpha Sigs... and this year one of the new sisters put it on a rush poster to rush Alpha Sig - they were taken down fast, but I wonder how many girls looked at them and were confused.

Hi Jezebel!

We used "ASA" when referring to ourselves, but always had "Alpha Sigs" on our jackets. AST, the same...when they wrote it out they were Alpha Tau's or Tau's. The fact that they had "Tau Tigers" on everything helped people keep it straight.

[DHgirl]

My sorority, Delta Eta, frequently gets teased at my school. We're all engineers with a couple architects so the school gets a kick out of the fact that our letters, which are ÄH when written, are D.H. when casually spoken. Of couse, anyone who studies physical chemistry and thermodynamics knows that dH means change in enthalpy--a rigidly defined physical property of matter...It's kind of funny the first one or two times you hear it, but it gets old quickly. We're a social sorority not a geek squad!

[douthit]

Here at Montana State, two different sororities sent christmas cards that were addressed to the men of Phi Sigma! I know that a lot of people on campus call us the phi sigs, but to not care enough to include the last letter kind of ticked me off a little bit!

[pheebs278]

I'm sure all of my Alpha Phi sisters will relate to this one: People pronouncing Phi like "Ph-eye" instead of the way we actually pronounce it, "Ph-ee" We even have a song about it.

[OnePlus69Is70]

We're Omega Delta, but we refer to ourselves as OD, which leads to jokes about 'ODing with OD'. What's worse, we sometimes use the letters AA for our pledges, for ritual reasons. The oddest part is that all of these letters were chosen to stand for phrases in Greek, and the English is just a coincidence.

[ZeePhiBee4Me]

my mother, who is one of those people who NEVER gets names right (she calls Snickers candy bars Sniggles lol) asked me why i pledged and what was so great about those Zappa Kappas...

hear the crickets chirping? i just stared at her for a moment and corrected her. it didnt stick. she still calls Zeta Phi Beta the Zappa Kappas...

[ziasha07]

Originally Posted by ZeePhiBee4Me

my mother, who is one of those people who NEVER gets names right (she calls Snickers candy bars Sniggles lol) asked me why i pledged and what was so great about those Zappa Kappas...

hear the crickets chirping? i just stared at her for a moment and corrected her. it didnt stick. she still calls Zeta Phi Beta the Zappa Kappas...

LMAO. Aww that's cute.

[SalukiPhiSig]

Phi Sig Kap is generally the most annoying one. It might be more understandable if Phi Sigma Sigma or another Phi Sigma ------ was on our campus but there aren't.

On a lighter note, I called the American Cancer Society yesterday to get my chapter squared away with the Relay-for-Life that's coming up and I told the woman on the phone that I am a member of Phi Sigma Kappa and I heard her say, "Oh, you're a Phi Sig, you're talking to an old Tri-Sigma girl." It's good to hear some random person get you're name right every once in a while, even if they are greek.

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by SalukiPhiSig

Phi Sig Kap is generally the most annoying one. It might be more understandable if Phi Sigma Sigma or another Phi Sigma ------ was on our campus but there aren't.

On a lighter note, I called the American Cancer Society yesterday to get my chapter squared away with the Relay-for-Life that's coming up and I told the woman on the phone that I am a member of Phi Sigma Kappa and I heard her say, "Oh, you're a Phi Sig, you're talking to an old Tri-Sigma girl." It's good to hear some random person get you're name right every once in a while, even if they are greek.

That was worse when we had both Phi Sigma Kappa and Phi Sigma Epsilon (before the merge)

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by SalukiPhiSig

Phi Sig Kap is generally the most annoying one. It might be more understandable if Phi Sigma Sigma or another Phi Sigma ------ was on our campus but there aren't.

On a lighter note, I called the American Cancer Society yesterday to get my chapter squared away with the Relay-for-Life that's coming up and I told the woman on the phone that I am a member of Phi Sigma Kappa and I heard her say, "Oh, you're a Phi Sig, you're talking to an old Tri-Sigma girl." It's good to hear some random person get you're name right every once in a while, even if they are greek.

We had Phi Sigma Kappa and Phi Sigma Sigma on our campus, so it was PhiSig for Phi Sigma Sigma and PhiKap for Phi Sigma Kappa.

Oh, and my dad is a Phi Tau Saluki.

[SigAlphSooner]

We have some unique names all in fun of course!!

Beta - MasterBetas
GammaPhis - JammaVibrata (sorry, but its funny)
KKG - Krappa Krappa Grandma (stated by a Kappa herself!)
DU's - Delta OOPS I SIGNED!
PiKaps - Boy Pi Phi (not real original)

[Blaire]

Okay, I won't name names, but one time a member of another NPC sorority asked me if I was a Delta Zappa instead of a Delta Zeta! This girl was wearing her letters and everything! I just smiled and said yes, I was. I was also asked why I had Arizona on my shirt before! Oh, and we've also been called Tri-Zappa! LOL! I swear, I couldn't make any of this up!!

Greek love and such,
Blaire

Proud to be a Delta Zee!

[Greek_Girl]

The first time I heard Alpha Phi pronounced it freaked me out. I was like you are a member of Alpha fee? huh? Then they clarified. I was really confused.

I have heard ADPi pronounced funny. I have never even heard of us being called Alpha Delts or AD. The funniest thing we ever get is people that misspell our name. We had intramural shirts made this year and when they came in we opened up the box to find "Alfha Delta Pi" shirts. That was hillarious. But, then on the receipt for the Alfha Delta Pi shirts was To: Alpha Gamma Delta Pi. That was pretty amusing too. Then the place we had a date party put out a welcome sign for Alpfa Delta Pi.

We just can't win!! Haha

[RedRoseSAI]

I've worn letters and had people ask me about EAI (i.e., SAI) Kinda surprises me - didn't we all use the sigma as a symbol in high school math?