The Greek alphabet will be replaced by a supplemental list of names using the same rules as the main Atlantic hurricane season naming list — a list of names A-Z but excluding the letters Q, U, X ...

The Greek alphabet has been retired as a way of identifying tropical storms, ... Greek letters had been used to name storms only once before, in 2005, ...

But the Greek alphabet also has letters that look familiar but sound different — P makes an R sound. Then there are letters that are unrecognizable, such as psi — shaped like a little pitchfork.

However, by the end of the fourth century BC, the Ionic-based Euclidean alphabet, made up of 24 letters from alpha to omega, had become standard throughout the Greek-speaking world. It is a ...

Like Roman numerals, their system borrowed letters; like the Arabic numerals we still use, it only needed one symbol for each decimal place. In the 6th century BCE, the Greek alphabet used 24 letters.

In Archaic and early Classical times, the Greek alphabet existed in many local variants. However, by the end of the fourth century BC, the Ionic-based Euclidean alphabet, made up of 24 letters ...