It’s time to talk about those scamps at the end of the alphabet: x, y and z. Despite being first in this group of three, “x” is a bit of a follower. It’s in the middle and e… ...

Some meteorologists think a list of “extra” names should be used instead of Greek letters to deal with storms that need to be retired.

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 ...

After a new variant with the unwieldy scientific name of B.1.1.529 was discovered last week in South Africa, observers might have expected WHO to name it after the next Greek letter on the list: Nu.

According to the Greek alphabet, the World Health Organization was expected to name the latest Covid-19 variant “Nu” or “Xi.” But both names were seen as problematic.

Forecasters used nine Greek letters to name the final storms of last year's Atlantic hurricane season. This year, the National Hurricane Center has a new plan.

The current system of naming COVID-19 variants is simple and easy. There’s only one problem: We’re already halfway through the Greek alphabet.

I sometimes suspect that there are people in the world who think the first three letters of the Greek alphabet are Alpha, Beta and RC. We are well into another major release cycle of Linux ...

The world is now getting a lesson in Greek, one unpleasant coronavirus variant at a time. The same letters used by Plato and Aristotle are turning into symbols of a global plague.

According to the Greek alphabet, the World Health Organization was expected to name the latest Covid-19 variant “Nu” or “Xi.” But both names were seen as problematic.

By Faith Karimi, 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 ...