LARNACA, Cyprus -- Lyrical duelists in Cyprus spit rhymes in head-to-head contests, keeping alive a tradition known as “tsiattista” that emerged centuries before the likes of Kendrick Lamar and Drake.

Another common and pleasurable use of alliteration is to make insults or terms of abuse, such as lily-livered, first attested ...

Even though the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season started on June 1, we already know what all the storms will be named. See full ...

Previously, the Greek alphabet was used to name storms if all of the initial 21 names were used. This naming convention was scrapped after 2020 when several Greek-letter storms were retired. Adria ...

Dia Beacon, the museum-in-a-box-factory on the banks of the Hudson River an hour upstream from New York City, is a monument to self-denial. On a cloudy day, the frosted skylights sift a pewter ...

Alpha to omega, where would we be without the Greek alphabet? We’d have to find other names for COVID variants, unproven software, sororities, fraternities, dominant animals in packs and some ...

Just as the English alphabet groups the three crazy letters—“X,” “Y,” and “Z”—at the end, Greek saves some very special characters for last.

Omicron is the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet. Omega is the last. In June, an expert committee led by a working group of the World Health Organization announced they would be using the Greek ...

As the variants mutated, from Alpha to Delta and then Omicron, people began taking note of the 24 Greek letters. Omicron is the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet. Omega is the last.

Pi is the next letter in the Greek alphabet. The WHO would not say whether it intends to use it. But they did add, there is no plan in place on what to do if they reach the end of the Greek alphabet.