Facts
Influences on USA
Greek Alphabet Letters
100
The Greeks dropped the signs for which there was no consonantal equivalent in the Greek language and instead used them for individual vowel sounds.
How did the Greeks change the Phoenicians alphabet?
100
In colleges _____ and ______ are named after a combination of Greek Alphabet letters.
What is fraternities and sororities?
100
a
What is a in the Greek Alphabet?
200
2 leters from the Greek alphabet are used in the word alphabet, alpha and beta.
What 2 Greek letters make up the word alphabet?
200
In astronomy Greek letters are used for naming the ________.
What is constellations?
200
beta
What is b in the Greek alphabet?
300
The Phoenician Writing System didn't have lowercase and uppercase letters.
What writing system didn't have lowercase and uppercase letters?
300
In mathematics and science the lowercase epsilon (ε) stand for an arbitrarily small positive number, and lower case pi (π) stand for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.
What Greek letters are used in mathematics and science?
300
gamma
What is g in the Greek Alphabet?
400
Many Greek letters are used in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Does the International Phonetic Alphabet use Greek letters?
400
Phobia, micro, and demos are all Greek words that the English language uses as stems.
What is an example of a Greek word, that is used as a stem in the English language?
400
d
What is delta in the Greek Alphabet?
500
Both the English and Greek alphabet have 26 letters?
How is the English alphabet and the Greek alphabet related?
500
About 150,000 words are used in the English language that was inspired by the Greek Alphabet.
How many words from the English language were created from Greek words?
500
Theta
What is -th in the Greek Alphabet?
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u