The word alphabet comes from alpha and beta, the first two words in the Greek alphabet. Why is the alphabet written in a specific order? The alphabet has often been described as an arbitrary ...

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The Greek alphabet arrived on the global stage and into everyday lexicon riding on waves of the novel coronavirus as the World Health Organization began naming variants in the Glagolitic script. As ...