Greek Letters today are used for writing modern greek and symbols in mathematics and science. The Greek alphabet has its origin in the Phoenician alphabet and in turn gave rise to the …

Greek Letter Ypsilon (Ύψιλον - Υ) "Long U". Its upper-case form came into English as an almost-a-vowel letter "y" (a short "long e"). It also went into Latin as "V", which has the "ooh" sound …

Greek Alphabet > Gamma Tweet Γ, Γάμα | Pronounced as between y as in yes and g as in go, but with no hard 'g' sound, e.g. weather

For some reasons the Greeks invented a separate letter for the "ps" sound. In Englis "p" is not pronounced when it starts a word ("psychiatrist", "psalms"), but in Greek it is.

The Greek alphabet consists of 24 letters, many of which are identical or similar to those of the Latin alphabet used in the English language. Some of the alphabet songs available for the …

The Ancient Greek alphabet appeared during the late 9th or early 8th century BC. It derived from the already existing Phoenician alphabet, out of which many other European scripts evolved.

Their alphabet did not have a letter for this vowel (or most others), so the Greeks used it instead for the short "e" sound, and used a reverse apostrophe to indicate the "h" sound, which in …

Greek and Latin "T", is taken from the Semitic languages which used a cross. Interestingly, some of the early Christian writers thought this letter has a special correlation with the Cross.

The Ancient Greeks used letters to represent numbers and they could make very complex calculations in this way. The numbers 1, 2, 3, … had not yet been invented, which were later …

By custom, the Greek origin of a word is indicated by using the "ph" letter-pair. The Greeks made up this letter and the remaining three, and added them to the end of their alphabet.