Mixed Up/Unusual Names Someone Has Called Your Org.

[Ch2tf]

Last weekend, a couple of sisters were out in D.C. and someone asked them if they were members of Phi Nu Xi. The sad part was that he was greek himself

[macallan25]

Originally Posted by rufio

oh we get Delta "OOP"silon alot. so finally we made a rush shirt that had a dictionary definition and DU spelled out phonetically.

Delta Upsilon: (del-tah yoop-sih-lon)
N. 1. Better Men
2. Better Brothers
3. Better Fraternity

we also get Delta EPSILON alot...that is just plain wrong.

I have never heard DU pronounced with a "yoop" sound.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by slibfs14

Again We have to correct groups all the time we are not Phi Mu a nursing sorority based off of ADPi but Phi Mu Alpha the Social fraternity based around music. Just a little alpha means so much. It doesn't work like Lambda Chi does for Lambda Chi Alpha!!!

Jason McCarty
President
Beta Alpha Chapter
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity

President
UTC Interfraternity Council

Phi Mu is not "a nursing sorority" nor are they "based off of ADPi."

If you expect people to get your name and the purpose of your org right, show the same consideration for others.

[LyonLuv]

Delta Zeta = DZ
Delta Gamma = DG
I refer to them as the deltas...

[tiner04]

Alpha Omicron Pi ive heard Alpha Omega all the time or people that spell is AOPi which isnt right

Tri Sigma people calling them Tri Sig..which is wrong

[dgdramadawg]

At UGA, each house has a rho chi stationed at the house for each day of recruitment. My senior year, our rho chi for one of the rounds was a doll, but also really goofy. She left us a nice note at the end of the day that began "Dear Gamma Delta" and referred to us as GD several times in the letter. We never knew whether she was joking or if she really had mixed up the letters on the front of our house!

One of my sister's friends mixed up my mom's sorority and mine into one house and thought we were both "Alpha Delta Gamma."

[TSteven]

Originally Posted by dgdramadawg

One of my sister's friends mixed up my mom's sorority and mine into one house and thought we were both "Alpha Delta Gamma."

For what it is worth, there is an NIC fraternity Alpha Delta Gamma.

[SDU Princess]

My name is Dawn and I am the CEO of Sigma Delta Upsilon Fraternity, Inc. (A DJFraternity) Est. June 30th, 2006... founded in Brooklyn, Ny.
People have thought that our letters have stood for:
"EAT" like the actual word eat....
"EAT" like sigma delta tau (when the last letter if you know your greek letters is upsilon)
"EAT" like getting us confused with MSU (Mu Sigma Upsilon) and LSU (Lambda Sigma Upsilon) -- brother and sister groups.

And i have had guys come up to me and shout out: :"Yea AKA!" and i'm like...thanks but I am not an AKA.... but hey, if youre not in it...i guess all the letters look the same to them if they cant translate them much less know what each one means?!

it's flattering that they either get us confused or think our letters mean something else... or that we are from another group! lol

[susan314]

It took me awhile after college to start being comfortable with saying "AGD" in the context of my sorority. At my college campus, Alpha Xi Delta went by "AZD", so it was very confusing if anyone tried to call us "AGD."

We tried to gently steer people (members and non-members) to use the "Alpha Gam" name to minimize confusion - both for our benefit and AZD's. It became such a habit in college to only say "Alpha Gam" when abbreviating our name that it took me awhile to adapt to "AGD" as being an acceptable version too.

[ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl]

Originally Posted by susan314

It took me awhile after college to start being comfortable with saying "AGD" in the context of my sorority. At my college campus, Alpha Xi Delta went by "AZD", so it was very confusing if anyone tried to call us "AGD."

We tried to gently steer people (members and non-members) to use the "Alpha Gam" name to minimize confusion - both for our benefit and AZD's. It became such a habit in college to only say "Alpha Gam" when abbreviating our name that it took me awhile to adapt to "AGD" as being an acceptable version too.

You know, now that I think about it, no one says AGD here, really, either. It's not very pretty sounding. Pretty much EVERYONE says "Alpha Gam"...no one to get confused with, though. The only way we get confused is with ADPi sometimes, because of jerseys...apparently no one believes in using their organization's colors, so people on campus who aren't greek register an alpha and a delta but don't bother to look at the third letter or the order that they're in...not that I mind being confused with ADPi specifically, but I don't like being confused with anyone.

That reminds me...does anyone here encourage members to have jerseys made in the correct colors? If you did, did it go over well?

It is very confusing during Recruitment when 90% of the PNMs have a hard time remembering Greek letters, but can remember colors...pet peeve of mine, I guess. Mine are red, buff, and green only, with the exception of a screen printed on I was given with red letters and a white outline on a grey shirt...which is ok. I guess I can see using different colors, but really, why use someone ELSE'S color combination? At least not of the organizations on campus?

[AlphaFrog]

I love purple. I have lots of purple letters. We had Tri Sigma on campus. Did I care? No. Of course, these were mine that I had made personally, not something we did as a chapter. And my tote bag is black with purple & silver letters. I also have zebra striped letters and spotted letters, etc. I don't think I should have to use crimson, white, green and gold. I don't always want to look like a Christmas tree.

[AChiOhSnap]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

I don't always want to look like a Christmas tree.

LOL, try being an Alpha Chi.

[upigletdewhat]

Well, my organization is Upsilon Delta Epsilon, and every calls us ude. as in like ooooooood. we started saying it to each other, and now other organizations have picked it up, and even people we don't know say ohhh that's an ude! lol. we love it.

[Private I]

lol that Omicron Nu Epsilon is lame. I was talking about the work that Tracy does-those are some phenomenal and extremely intricate line jackets.

[techkitty]

I'm getting used to hearing Gamma Sig all the time... but before I'd joined up, back when a good friend of mine was pledging Theta Omega Phi, he called Gamma Sigma Sigma "Gamma Pig" rather often. (Jerk.)