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

The super-active 2005 and 2020 hurricane seasons were both so busy that some storms were named using the Greek alphabet. But problems arose in 2020, leading to a new list of names to roll into. Each ...

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 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, ...

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 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 ...