Greek alphabet

"Lord, make them die an awful death" - Ancient Graffiti Reveals Harrowing Reality of Prison in Corinth, Greece

rchaeologists have unearthed a chilling discovery in Corinth, Greece, revealing a 1,600-year-old Roman prison with haunting graffiti inscribed on the…

16 August 2024

Mystery Solved: Ancient Sphinx Inscription Reveals "Unusual" Poem in archaic Greek alphabet

The enigmatic inscription on a bronze sphinx statue, unearthed in the early 19th century, has finally yielded its secrets after…

4 January 2024

The Timeless Beauty and Significance of the Greek Alphabet

In the grand tapestry of world languages and scripts, one stands out as a symbol of enduring beauty and historical…

8 September 2023

Elon Musk: He explained what the "Omega" he wrote on Twitter means

Panic reigned on Twitter on Sunday night when its owner, Elon Mus , wrote the Greek letter "Ω" in a…

30 January 2023

My best friend wants to name her baby after a Greek alphabet letter

A LIST of baby names has divided the internet after one Redditor revealed her best friend's unusual choices. The unidentified…

29 December 2022

Did you know many English words have Greek roots?

Greek is ranked as the richest language in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. It…

28 March 2022

Will 'Pi', the Next Letter in Greek Alphabet be used in 2022

‘Omicron’ comes from Middle English, from Greek o mikron, literally meaning ‘small o’. It was named by the World Health…

5 January 2022

Omicron and Tsitsipas lead a list of names misspoken by US broadcasters

Stefanos Tsitsipas is ranked the fourth-best men's tennis player in the world. Omicron is a letter in the Greek alphabet…

8 December 2021

Why WHO skipped two Greek letters to name new Covid-19 variant Omicron

While choosing a name for the variants of SARS-CoV2, the World Health Organisation has so far leapt two letters of…

30 November 2021

What does the Greek Letter Omicron mean?

Omicron can trace its roots as a word back to Ancient Greece. Specifically, the word is the 15th letter in…

28 November 2021

The Ancient Greek Language and the Crossbred Latin use known as "Greeklish"    

Through Ancient Greek history, our ancestors from pre-Homeric to Homeric times had invented the Ancient Greek language, which is the…

27 November 2021

The Inherently Political Task of Assigning Appropriate Greek Letters to COVID-19 Variants

The quest to assign a letter of the Greek alphabet to the newly identified COVID-19 variant ‘B.1.1.529' that has spread…

27 November 2021

New Covid Variant From South Africa yet to be assigned letter from Greek Alphabet.

Virologists are rushing to learn more about a variant of the Covid-19 virus that was first identified in Botswana, and…

26 November 2021

Facebook has the Ancient Greeks to Thank for its New Name 'Meta'

In a bid to distance itself from a series of embarrassing scandals, Facebook renames itself 'Meta'. Like so many other…

30 October 2021

Terumi Kai: Teaching Japanese to Greek Language Speakers (in Just Two Months)

Japanese is said to be one of the most difficult languages in the world to learn. Little wonder that Terumi…

22 August 2021

The “China Virus” is Not Greek

There is one obvious problem that some may see associated with this ‘solution’ which calls for using the letters of…

2 June 2021

WHO uses Greek alphabet to name COVID-19 variants

Covid-19 variants are to be known by letters of the Greek alphabet, in a bid to remove the stigma from…

1 June 2021

Did you know many English words have Greek roots?

Greek is ranked as the richest language in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. It…

28 March 2021

Greek alphabet removed from list of hurricane names

A special World Meteorological Organisation committee on Wednesday decided to discontinue using the Greek alphabet to name tropical cyclones in the Atlantic.…

18 March 2021

Greek alphabet may be used for only the second time in history this hurricane season 2020

September is the peak time of the Atlantic Hurricane season when most tropical activity occurs before the season ends on…

18 September 2020

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