WHAT THE DIFINITION OF PHI ALPHA SIGMA?  WHAT EACH WORD MEANS?

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 27 Mar 2003 16:45 PST

The words phi, alpha, and sigma are the names (in English) of letters
in the Greek alphabet. What kind of "meaning" are you looking for in
these words?

Here you'll find the Greek alphabet, with each letter's corresponding
English name:

http://people.msoe.edu/~tritt/greek.html

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Clarification of Question by yuks-ga on 28 Mar 2003 09:27 PST

I want to know what exactly each word means when it comes to Phi Alpha
Sigma Fraternity.  In Fraternity, "Phi" "Alpha" "Sigma" mean
something???

Phi Alpha Sigma is the name of an honor society for accounting students:

Texas Wesleyan University
http://www.txwesleyan.edu/studentlife/organizations.htm

Fraternities are social and/or academic honors organizations, many of
which have chosen to use Greek letters as their names. Beyond that, I
do not think there is any hidden meaning behind "Phi Alpha Sigma." It
is simply the English rendition of three letters from the Greek
alphabet.

In addition to the accounting honor society mentioned above, I've also
found a reference to a Phi Alpha Sigma medical fraternity:

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://web.library.uiuc.edu/ahx/howe/howecomp.htm