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

Since May the World Health Organization has been using letters of the Greek alphabet, in order, to name coronavirus variants. Delta was the most dominant one, followed by eight others ...

In doing so, the WHO decided to skip over two letters in the Greek alphabet: nu and xi. The reasons for doing this remained a bit of a mystery until the WHO itself clarified the issue on Saturday.

Since then, only the acute accent and the double dots are used instead of the many other little marks that could surround a letter As a general rule, all Greek words of more than one syllable ...

Over 2,000 years ago, Eucleides, ruler or "archon" or ancient Athens, Greece, helped usher in a standardized Greek alphabet. That alphabet eventually led to the Latin letters we now use.

The World Health Organization skipped a couple of letters in the Greek alphabet when it named the omicron variant. That fueled all sorts of speculation and claims on social media about why the ...

Since May the World Health Organization has been using letters of the Greek alphabet, in order, to name coronavirus variants. Delta was the most dominant one, followed by eight others -- including ...