From: Nichael Cramer (nichael@sover.net)
Date: Mon Apr 14 1997 - 09:28:01 EDT
Carl W. Conrad wrote:
> At 5:19 AM -0500 4/14/97, Jonathan Robie wrote:
> >I don't want to reinvent the wheel. Somebody out there *has* to know a good
> >mnemonic for remembering the order of the Greek alphabet. Would you like to
> >share it with me?
> This may be an instance of items requiring as an answer Euclid's "There is
> no royal road to learning." [...]
The following is, strictly speaking, not a mnemonic (as or a fortuitous
mispelling had it here earlier, a "pneumonic") but I've always found it useful
to split the alphabet up into groups of four letters:
Alpha-Beta-Gamma-Delta (Almost exactly like English)
Epsilon-Zeta-Eta-Theta (Completely unlike English, but fun to say)
Iota-Kappa-Lambda-Mu (Again, almost like English, omitting the
weird letter "J")
Nu-Xi-Omicron-Pi (Almost like English, the anomaly made easier
to remember by the Xi/Pi rhyme.)
Rho-Sigma-Tau-Upsilon (Exactly like english)
Phi-Chi-Psi-Omega! (Again, fun to say, building up to the final
Omega, which, presumably, everyone knows. ;-)
>From Vermont, where it's just started snowing outside my office window...
Nichael Cramer
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