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Greek Symbols

A modicum of Greek facilitates the study of statistics. The Greek letters are pronounced as follows: Alpha as the initial a in arcane, beta as b in bone, gamma as g in gate, delta as d in double, epsilon as e in fret (short e), zeta as z in zeal, eta as e in echo (long e), theta as t in target, iota as i in pit, kappa as k in king, lambda as l in lasso, mu as m in mouse, nu as n in never, xi as x in wax, omicron as o in not (short o), pi as p in park, rho as r in riddle, sigma as s in house, tau as t in tender, upsilon as y in yttrium, phi as f in flag, chi as ch in loch, psi as ps in lapse, and omega as o in fortune (long o). The lowercase sigma has two forms,  and . The second form is used at the end of words. Greek alphabet consists of 25 characters:

 

 

 

Writing Greek

Start writing the letter at the point indicated by the asterisk.

 

Correspondence of Latin and Greek Characters

The following story is based on the idea of F. K. Smith and T. W. Melluish who published a similar story in their textbook of classical Greek.

 

Debra and Edgar were exploring the . They dined on , drank a delicious  and , listening to the . After dinner they went to  to see  and .

 

Next morning after finishing her , Debra wandered down to the  of the  to write  of her . It was a  day. The  and  were in bloom and she thought about her  with Edgar the last night.

 

After writing her  and getting her , Debra became  of Edgar; they  and thought that their  will be happy. Shortly after their  Debra's  was published as a  and Edgar finished his studies of  and  with specialization in  and became a .

 

However, one day Debra started to feel  in her . Her physician, after careful , made  that Debra contracted  of . One winter day Debra fell into  and died.

 

Edgar  to live  and the year following this personal  entered a . Debra's  covered with heavy  lies buried under an old . In spring,  nest close to its , their songs providing the only .

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