The modern Greek alphabet is missing some of the letters used in ancient times. What are these missing letters, and what ...

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

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.

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...