History of the Greek alphabet games in honor of the Muses. The majority of the letters of the Phoenician alphabet were adopted into Greek with much the same sounds as they had had in Phoenician. However, Phoenician, like other Semitic scripts, has a range of consonants, commonly called gutturals, that did not exist in Greek: "’āleph" , "hē" , "ḥēth" , and "‘ayin" . Of these, only "ḥēth" was retained in Greek as a consonant, eta, representing the sound in those dialects that had an [h], while the consonants "’āleph, hē" and "‘ayin" became the vowels alpha , e and o , respectively. Phoenician had
Spelling alphabet names used in lieu of alphabet letters for the purpose of spelling out words. It is used by the Greek armed and emergency services. Malay and related languages (Indonesian etc.) represent letter "L" with "London", since the word "lima" also means "five" in these languages. The Russian spelling alphabet is a spelling alphabet for the Russian version of the Cyrillic alphabet. In Spanish the word "ñoño" (, 'dull') is used for ñ. The PGP word list, the Bubble Babble wordlist used by ssh-keygen, and the S/KEY dictionary, are spelling alphabets for public key fingerprints (or other binary data) – a