Mixed Up/Unusual Names Someone Has Called Your Org.

Alright most orgs around the country go by the same name. For example...
Beta Theta Pi = Beta
Phi Gamma Delta = FIJI
Kappa Kappa Gamma= Kappa
Kappa Alpha Theta = Theta
But what are some unusual names you've heard people give your org? Or have they ever mixed your's with another?

One day I was waiting for a bus and a women my age saw my sorority tote with AGD letters, and asked if I was a Delta (as in Delta Sigma Theta). I had to tell her nope Im an Alpha Gam.
Then I was talking to a sigma chi who saw my letters in my aol screen name and he said, "So you're and Alpha Delt" Im thinking to myself I've never even heard ADPi get called Alpha Delt. Once again had to correct.
On a campus near where i live the Sigma Kappa's are known as Kappas. Theyre we just known as SK or Sigma Kappa on my campus and many others I knew of. Plus I know a post on here called Betas...Thetas

[AchtungBaby80]

Well...I've never had anything THAT unusual happen, but for the longest time my boyfriend called my sorority Delta Tortoise because he couldn't keep the letters straight (there's a sorority at his school that has a name rhyming with ours).

[CutiePie2000]

The majority of people call "Gamma Phi Beta" members "Gamma Phis", but I have heard some people calling them "Betas". I think that was at the University of Western Ontario. Strange huh?

[mrblonde]

'FIGI' has gotta be the most common...which I can understand from people who dont have a chapter at their school, but for those that do, FIJI is on our sown letter garments

Whoops! Although its not really incorrect, alot of times on mixer or Greek Week T shirts, our actual Greek letters will appear somewhere. As many Greeks know, we dont print our letters, and they can only appear on certain places (i.e. a house or badge). So remember that when Greek Week rolls around!

Since this post got bumped up, and its very late EST, I have to bring this up. Apparently, in addition to not knowing how to spell FIJI, our Panhellenic doesnt know that FIJI and Phi Gamma Delta are one and the same. I mean, I know were the only off campus house besides KA (and how do you screw up KA), but our t shirts for our Greek Week had FIJI and Phi Gamma Delta as two different fraternities...

When referring to my org. I usually say "AGD". Sometimes I say it too fast and people think I'm saying "A-D-D"...

[SigPiTO]

I haven't really run into strange names, but I've run into some interesting nicknames. When our founding fathers were around in the early 90s here in Toronto we were known as the Sigma Pigs.

In an earlier post there was mention of AD as possibly ADPi. I know here and wherever else they exist, Alpha Dleta Phi is known as AD.

Also, my gf is a Theta at the university of Western Ontario and I know they call Gamma Phi Beta, Gamma Phi. I think it would get confusing with Beta (Beta Theta Pi) there.

[AOIIBrandi]

I have had people think that AOII was Alpha Omega Pi instead of Alpha Omicron Pi.

I have also heard people call Pi Kappa Alpha Pi Kap which is confusing to me b/c we had a Pi Kappa Phi chapter at my school also, and they were known as Pi Kap

[SAEalumnus]

Probably the biggest misnomer I've heard is when I tell someone I'm in Sigma Alpha Epsilon, they say, "Oh, you're a SigEp!"

NNNNOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm NOT a SigEp!

No offense.

I'm an S-A-E

[CrimsonTide4]

Here is what we get, WHAT'S AEO?!?!!?

Then my collegiate chapter was OMICRON THETA which of course is OQ and was asked what's with the other O?

[pirate00]

For some strange reason, some people, mainly African-Americans who are non-Greek, love to confuse Alpha Phi Omega, with Alpha Phi Alpha. It's hilarious!! The minute someone sees the first 2 letters on my sweater, they don't even give my Omega the second look, they come and say, "Oh you're an "Alpha", alright!" And everytime I have to correct them on the difference between the two. Some even get the impression that APO is a LOCAL fraternity!! OK, once and for all here is some obvious differences between the 2 GLO's:

Alpha Phi Omega: Founded 12/16/1925
Alpha Phi Alpha: Founded 12/04/1906
APO: Colors- Blue and Gold
APA: Colors- Black and Old Gold
APO: International Co-ed Service Fraternity
APA: Historically Black all-male Fraternity

...Just to name a few.

-pirate00

"In founding Alpha Phi Omega, not only was a new fraternity formed, but also an entirely new type of fraternity was formed ... dedicated to serving others ..." -Donald Terwilliger, Founding member

[SAEalumnus]

"X and a horseshoe, Chi-O!"

Sorry, couldn't resist. The chapter on my campus is VERY enthusiastic - great women!

[aephi alum]

At my school we had several clubs who "adopted" Greek letters as their own - something that had to do with their club, not an actual GLO's letters. For example, we had the Lecture Series Committee -> LSC -> Lambda Sigma Chi, and the Student Information Processing Board -> SIPB -> Sigma Pi Beta. They would have lettered T-shirts and sweatshirts made up, etc.

My local sorority was called Sigma Iota Phi. One day I was walking around campus wearing letters, and someone I vaguely knew came up to me and said "Oh, I didn't know you were in SIPB." Me: (puzzled) "I'm not." Him: "Oh, I just saw S-I-P and thought SIPB."

When we went national, we got mixed up with AEPi ALL THE TIME. It was semi-understandable, since AEPi has been on campus a lot longer than AEPhi, but after the umpteenth time of being asked when AEPi had gone coed or being mistaken for an AEPi little sister or someone's girlfriend, enough was enough!!

[33girl]

Ch-ch-ch Chee O, ch-ch-ch-Chee O-mega...thanks a lot Hootie, that will be stuck in my brain for a week.

Two of our ASA chapters in Kansas had the apple as their local symbol and used to call themselves "Apples." Apple - Alpha I guess. We are known as Alphas, Alpha Sigs, ASA - it depends on the campus and how many other orgs there are there with Alpha in their name. We had Alpha Sigma Tau also (not to mention A Phi O, Alpha Psi Omega and AXP) so if we had called ourselves Alphas people would have been like "which ones?"

When I was at Clarion we had Phi Sigma Kappa and Phi Sigma (local that used to be PSE but didn't go along w/ the merger). They were continually arguing about who was "the REAL Phi Sigs" and got very offended if you called them anything else. We finally got sick of it and started calling them the Kappas and the "Ma"s.

[AngelPhiSig]

Originally posted by 33girl


When I was at Clarion we had Phi Sigma Kappa and Phi Sigma (local that used to be PSE but didn't go along w/ the merger). They were continually arguing about who was "the REAL Phi Sigs" and got very offended if you called them anything else. We finally got sick of it and started calling them the Kappas and the "Ma"s.

Hehe, thats alot like our argument with Kappa's now... theyre all like "Were the Phi Sigs..." and we tell them "No we are..." so we call them Kappa's still, and ourselves the Phi Sigs... cos what else can we be besides Phi Sigma Sigma or Phi Sigs? Someone looked at our letters and said.. "Whats PEE?" Ugh! And our chapter designation, Gamma Gamma, gets looked at like backwards 77's!"

In TBS, we get the whole TBE thing... cos uneducated people dont understand the difference between sigma and E.... Although I love our chapter designation... delta omicron, triangle circle!

[maggieaxid]

As an Alpha Xi Delta, i get Alpha Zeta Delta all the time bc you say "AZD".or some times people see it written out and think its "Alpha Chi Delta" and when i was in Indiana for a national convention, we were called "fuzzies".....which i found somewhat amusing, others thought it was grotesque and nationals "frowns upon that". but whatever...and then one of our pledge classes called themselves "fozzies" (like fozzie bear from the muppets), and that kinda took for awhile. it was used insted of saying "the new members". but then we got scolded for that too.
at elon the tri sigmas are just Sigma
the ZTAs are Zeta or Ta's
Phi Mu is Phi Mu
AOPi is AOPi
AXO is sometimes called Achoo (as in the sneeze)..hope that doesnt offend anyone!!!! i wasnt there when they colonized so i don't know how that came to be.
Sigma Kappa is either Sigma Kappa or the Kappas
LXA is the Chi Chis (as in the restaurant "chee chees")
KA is KA
Sigma Chi is occassionally Sigma Khaki
and Kappa Sigma is kappa Sig
and Pi Kappa Phi is Pi Kap

i think thats it. we all have derogatory names too. PM me if you are so inclined to know them. I would post them here, but people would take it too seriously and get offended.
-Maggie