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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

The Greek alphabet comes into play after 21 traditional ... in alphabetical order as new storms form. The letters Q, U, X, Y and Z aren't used. Now, after storms in the Atlantic this year have ...

An unusual side effect of the coronavirus is the regular appearance of the Greek alphabet in newspaper headlines. The highly contagious Omicron variant has broken through in more ways than one ...