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The term "fraternities", colloquially shortened to "frats", generally refers to all-male or mixed-sex organizations; the female-only equivalent is called a sorority, a word first used in 1874 at Gamma Phi Beta at Syracuse University. Fraternities and sororities, especially outside North America, are also referred to as student corporations, academic corporations, or simply corporations. With few exceptions (notably "Acacia", "FarmHouse", and "Triangle"), the names of North American fraternities and sororities consist of two or three Greek letters which are usually abbreviation of their motto in Greek. For this reason, fraternities and sororities are known collectively as the Greek System and its members as Greeks. The use of Greek letters started with the first such organization, Phi Beta Kappa, which used Greek letters to hide their secret name.