In the mid 1970s, PM Konstantinos Karamanlis proposed Latinizing Greek letters and making the Greek language phonetic.

The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is off to a record-setting start, and at its current pace, the tropical storm count may outnumber the list of 21 names that are used to identify systems -- something ...

(CNN) — The naming of the new coronavirus variant Omicron is causing some confusion. Since May the World Health Organization has been using letters of the Greek alphabet, in order, to name coronavirus ...

The World Meteorological Organization's Hurricane Committee announced Wednesday that they would not be using the Greek alphabet in the future to name storms. The committee said that names using the ...

When the World Health Organization (WHO) gave the new B.1.1.529 variant its Greek name, those familiar with the ancient alphabet noticed something: omicron wasn’t next in line. Nu and xi come before ...

The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season has already crossed more than two dozen names off its original list and has moved into the Greek alphabet for only the second time in history. Multiple storms have ...

When it comes to hurricane names, you'll never have to worry about the Greek alphabet again. On Wednesday, the World Meteorological Organization, which is in charge of hurricane names worldwide, ...

Tropical storms have blown through 2020’s predetermined A-W names and now must use Greek letters — a practice required only once before, during the record-breaking 2005 hurricane season.