Why Frats use greek letters for their names?
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That's a good question!  Hope this helps:\n\nThe Phi Beta Kappa Society, founded on December 5, 1776 at the College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, Virginia), is generally recognized to be the first Greek-letter student secret society in North America. By legend, it was founded by individuals rejected for membership from an older student society known as the Flat Hat Club, which counted Thomas Jefferson among its alumni. The Flat Hat Club, or FHC, for short was founded on November 11, 1750, by six students at the College of William and Mary. FHC was the precursor to Phi Beta Kappa and thus has the distinction of being the first in line of the thousands of greek-letter fraternities and sororities found on college campuses today.\n\nThe society formed as a forum to discuss topics not covered in the regimented classical education of universities of the era—lending the name literary fraternity to its type. Ironically, that education was responsible for the name—most students were well-versed in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew; Phi, Beta, and Kappa were the initials of an esoteric Greek motto. In addition to its secrecy and selection of a Greek name, it also introduced a code of high ideals, secret rituals and handclasps, membership badges, and oaths that characterized later Greek letter societies.
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No special reason. All letters have been used in physics.\nRather arbitrary chosen.\n\nTh
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Because they're names.
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The reason some people type G-d instead of typing the whole thing is because in some religions it is disrespect to write the whole name in.  Why they dont is because we don't want someone printing it out and defacing G-d's name(on purpose or not on purpose).  One of those such religions is Judaism.
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greek:\njohn=gianis\njoseph=iosif\nrichard=rihardos\nmichael=mihalis\nelizabeth=elisabet\nlauren=lavrentios\nthe rest is the same
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Because they aren't a part of it and they believe that hazing only occurs in fraternities and greek houses are just a place for partying, etc.\n\nSadly the sports teams on my campus party for than fraternity men, are more exclusive(only team members and girls allowed into parties), and the haze more(Seen and heard rumors)... \n\nPeople usualy hate what they don't know about and the secrets that each greek house keeps between the members pisses the non-members out cause they don't know. Psychologically they wish they knew but sadly either didn't try to rush a house or was turned off by the media...\n\nI too hate the image I have on my campus thanks to Animal House and Old School, but I know that my gpa is higher than most of the campus and I am way more involved.
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can your pc read greek alphabet? if it can it is "Οδυσσεα, καλη τυχη!"\nIf it cant read those letters, then i ll spell it for you.\nomikron-delta-ypsilon-sigma\n-sigma-epsilon-aplha(odyssea) \n\nkapa-alpha-lamda-ita (kali)\n\ntaf-ypsilon-hi-ita (tihi)
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First learn how to spell it - fraternities.  Next try site below.
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"C" letter is was a style of writing sigma letter "Σ" at the Byzantine years. You will find it at churces and icons
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Christ is not a last name--it is an honorary epithet meaning "the anointed one" in Greek (Christos). The New Testament was written in Greek, and the Gospel writers used this term to indicate that Jesus was the Messiah.
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From Wikipedia:\n\n"The name was constructed by combining the Greek 'kyklos' (circle) with "clan."[3]"
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From Wiki:"The use of the Greek letter π for this constant is derived from Greek words like περιφέρεια (for periphery) and περίμετρον (for perimeter) starting with this letter.\nThe name of the Greek letter π is pi, and this spelling is used in typographical contexts where the Greek letter is not available or where its usage could be problematic. When referring to this constant, the symbol π is always pronounced like "pie" in English, the conventional English pronunciation of the letter."\n\nFrom Online Etymology Dictionary:\nPi: "1841, used in L. 1748 by Swiss mathematician Leonhart Euler (1707-83), from Gk. letter pi (from Heb., lit. "little mouth") as an abbreviation of Gk. periphereia "periphery." "\n\nMy initial guess was that it was derived from Latin, since many of our words have Latin origins.  But, apparently it is Greek in origin and is used because the Greek symbol Pi means perimeter thus corresponding to circles.
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Wow i love how everyone associates hazing with only greek life!!! THAT IS THE BIGGEST LIE IN THE WORLD!!!! I attend a university and I am a member in a fraternity as well as a varsity sport. I will tell you that hazing and initiations are much much worst on sports teams than any nationally acredited greek house.  The nation board severely punishes greek houses for hazing where as there is no punishment for a universities sports teams....\n\nI am on the greek life board at my university and I know about every single thing that happens in most greek houses and I'll tell you it's nothing like what i had to do for my varsity sport of i have heard other sports had todo!!!!\n\nPlease do not assume that ALL fraternities or sororities haze cause the majority does not and you have no knowlegde of anything myth you are letting slip out of your mouth.
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guys love anything that is personalised with their initials or name, it must be to do with marking their territory or something, good choice.
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1st name is originally Roman\nmiddle name is Greek in origin\nfamily name is Scots in origin\n\nnever thought about liking it or not, so I suppose i must
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is it a greek letter?
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The answer is I.\nThey are the English initials of the names of the letters of the Greek alphabet. The next letter in the sequence is Iota.\n(alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, etc... Iota)