The first true alphabet was an invention of the Greek world, revolutionizing writing, literacy, and shaping foundations of ...

The Latin alphabet is the most recognizable form of written language, whose history goes back to the eras of ancient Greek ...

The list of 2025 Atlantic hurricane storm names has only one new name since the list was last used six years ago. The World ...

I’ll just jump to the fact that it comes to us from the Greek letter upsilon (whose uppercase looks exactly like our Y) via the Latin alphabet. As we saw earlier with the letter X, Y serves us ...

“The Greek alphabet will not be used in future because ... naming list — a list of names A-Z but excluding the letters Q, U, X, Y, and Z — for if and when the initial list of names has ...

Today’s “G” derives from the Greek letter “zeta,” a letter that ... The end of the alphabet was “x, y, z and, per se, and.” That is, “in itself, and,” meaning the symbol for ...

Forecasters skip over the letters Q, U, X, Y and Z due to the very few names ... additional storms will take names from the Greek alphabet," the National Hurricane Center said.

Greek letters will no longer be used to name ... that supplemental list will also be based on the modern English alphabet, excluding Q, U, X, Y, and Z. The WMO said in a press release that names ...

The entire Greek alphabet was banned from ... There are no Q, U, X, Y or Z names because of the lack of usable names that begin with those letters.

The Greek alphabet has been retired as a way of ... the supplemental list does not include names that begin with the letters Q, U, X, Y or Z, which officials said are not common enough or easily ...