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05-15-2002, 10:49 AM
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What do you call it?
I think it's so interesting what some of us call paraphernalia. In the South, I've noticed that most greeks refer to it as para or paro, while most greeks I know up here (in Ohio) call it 'nalia (nell-ya) or gear.
What's it called where you're from?
(Just curious)
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05-15-2002, 01:16 PM
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In Chicago we call it "perry" but I say "'nalia"
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05-15-2002, 02:02 PM
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When I was up north in school Ithaca, NY) we called it para. Here at home I here both para and nalia.
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05-15-2002, 02:17 PM
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WhenI was in Jersey we called it para. Now that I'm in WDC metro area I hear nalia.
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05-15-2002, 03:20 PM
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Thanks!
Hey Moderator (probably CT4, am I right?), thanks for starting a new thread. I didn't even think to do that!
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05-15-2002, 03:48 PM
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I was initiated in California and went to school in Alabama - we always call it "nalia" - we would always call soror's who have on too many different items at once "over-nalia'ed". You know how some neos cross and put on a Delta shirt, hat, tennis shoes with the delta shoe strings, and carry an umbrella, even if it isn't raining...LOL - OVER-NALIA'ED!!!
I never heard "para", "perry", "peri", or "paro" until I moved to the east coast, or saw folks using those terms on the 'net.
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05-15-2002, 04:12 PM
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Re: Thanks!
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Originally posted by the411
Hey Moderator (probably CT4, am I right?), thanks for starting a new thread. I didn't even think to do that!
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nah, it was me. You're welcome though!
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05-15-2002, 09:48 PM
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Sorry to butt in, I don't have anything to offer the discussion at hand...but is my computer malfunctioning or does this thread have 7 posts and like 3993 views????
Last edited by librasoul22; 05-15-2002 at 09:50 PM.
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05-15-2002, 10:15 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by librasoul22
Sorry to butt in, I don't have anything to offer the discussion at hand...but is my computer malfunctioning or does this thread have 7 posts and like 3993 views????
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I thought the same thing this afternoon that a thread had one reply but 3000+ views but here it is when my Partner in Crime split the thread, it takes the number of views and divides in 1/2.
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05-16-2002, 08:05 PM
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Here in South Florida and Central Florida, we call it 'NALIA...at least that's what I've heard it been called
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05-16-2002, 09:01 PM
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Well in crooked letter (or Mississippi for those who don't know)we called it paro. But in my 7 years I have heard it called just about everything. Also, if someone had on a hat, shirt, etc. together, we said they had on double or triple paro
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05-17-2002, 01:22 PM
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I've always heard 'Nalia, para or Perry. So that just kind of stuck with me. I've never heard paro, even though it's very similar to para.
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05-18-2002, 03:03 PM
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I call it "peri" or "nalia".
RedAngel
#11-Spr'96
Albany(NY)Alumnae Chapter
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