Greek Reporter

The Lost Letters of the Greek Alphabet

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

Fact Check: WHO skipped letters of Greek alphabet while naming COVID-19 variant Omicron

Several social media posts have questioned the convention adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO) for naming new COVID-19 variants and speculated over whether it avoided letters of the Greek ...
The Daily Beast

The Greek Alphabet Makes For a Plethora of Puzzle Clues

In Monday's puzzle, 27-Across read [Greek letter X], which was either a gimme or a "Now, which one is that again..?" for most solvers. CHI it was, but it is tough to keep track sometimes. Four of the ...
The New Yorker

A Linguistic Look at Omicron

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: the ...
Hindustan Times

WHO avoids Greek alphabet Xi and names new Covid variant Omicron. Here's why

The new variant of Covid identified first in South Africa has been named omicron by the World Health Organization on Friday. The variants of SARS-CoV-2 are named after Greek alphabets, but for naming ...
Daily Express

Archaeology breakthrough as Greek alphabet 'centuries older' than previously thought

The Greek alphabet, traditionally believed to have emerged in the eighth century BC, is now undergoing reevaluation thanks to groundbreaking research at Leiden University. The writing system is ...
The Washington Post

With coronavirus variants, the world is learning the Greek alphabet, one grim letter at a time

The 15th letter of the Greek alphabet had been a fairly innocuous entity for 2,500 years. But in just two weeks, it became notorious. Omicron moved beyond classical philosophy texts, beyond the realm ...