TWRoO on 03 June 2008
That Guy said: well if you really want to follow the original greek letters, then if Zed = Zeta, then B should follow the same form as Beta, and so on and so forth. |
Well ignoring the other replies about it being English, not Greek. Here is the Greek Alphabet to prove that silly rules like that don't make sense anyway.
English spelling of Greek letter | Greek Letter | ||
Alpha | α | A | aee |
Beta | β | B | bee |
Gamma | γ | Y | waii |
Delta | δ | D | dee |
Epsilon | ε | E | ee |
Zeta | ζ | Z | zed |
Eta | η | H | haich |
Theta | θ | ??? | probably the letter for the "th" sound |
Iota | ι | I | aii |
Kappa | κ | K | kai |
Lambda | λ | L | el |
mu | μ | M | em |
nu | ν | N | en |
xi | ξ | ??? | suspected letter "C"? |
omicron | ο | O | ow |
pi | π | P | pee |
rho | ρ | R | ar |
sigma | σ | S | es |
tau | τ | T | tee |
upsilon | υ | U | yu |
phi | φ | ??? | perhaps "F" |
chi | χ | X | eks |
psi | ψ | ??? | unknown, probably seperate sound |
omega | ω | W | double yu |
missing in English "G" and "J" (coincidence that these two letters are similar in English?) |
If by your means Beta becoming "bee" means that Zeta should become "zee", how do you explain "aee", "dee" "ee" "pee" and "tee" are from alpha, delta, epsilon etc... instead of aeta, deta, eta, peta, and teta. (also C may be xi instead of ceta)