Greek has 2 different letters for the sound ‘O’. Why ‘ω’ and not just ‘o’? Well, the ω/ο dichotomy is a different story. (it’s a shortcut from Ἐπαμεινώνδας/Epaminondas, an ancient Greek general who beat the Spartans). my name sounds like exactly like ‘Nodas’ (that’s why I transliterated that way), but in Greek it’s written ‘Νώντας’ in order to have the same sound. But the greek diphthong ‘ντ=ν+τ, sounds exactly like the english letter ‘d/ D’. The ‘δ/Δ’, is different, it sounds like the sound in the article ‘the’. In Greek this only requires 2 letters to make the exact same sound: ‘δε or ΔΕ’(in capitals):” (btw Δ/δέλτα does not sound like ‘delta’, but like ‘the-lta’ (as it sounds in the article ‘the’.) But if you want make the ‘delta’ sound the letters should read ‘ντέλτα’, not ‘δέλτα’. The letter ‘h’ is superfluous, many times.Į.g.2: For the most commonly used English word: “The’ (3 letters), If the English had simple φ/ph and θ/th letters it would be much simpler: “diφθong”. Well, ‘diphthong’, what a word… it contains both the φ/ph and θ/th sounds… In greek it’s much simpler : δίφθογγο. So to make up for this, the diphthongs ‘th’, ‘ks’, ‘ph’ have to be used inĮ.g 1. What is missing from the English alphabet is Θ, (θήτα/theta), Ξ (ξι/ks) and Φ (φι/phi) (Η, Ι, Ο, Χ ), which are already part of the Greek alphabet. They can be inverted in either of any axis (x,y), and still remain the same.Īs you notice, the English alphabet has only 4 supersymmetric letters The only 2 letters that have no axial symmetry is These 16 letters are symmetrical (left-right side,are the same in regard to y-axis):Īlso, these 11 letters are symmetrical (up-down, in regard to x-axis)Īnd these are mirror images, if both axis are inverted : Thus, if you want an easier mnemonic, I recommend learning about symmetries like I was taught at age 6: Our alphabet is highly symmetrical and easy to visualise. In first grade we used to learn about symmetries of letters (there were also some mirror images of the letter that could be flipped and pasted into the correct ones,as a game) Also, the greek alphabet has only 24 letters, instead of 26 in the English alphabet.