History of the Greek alphabet Plutarch criticizes Herodotus for prejudice and misrepresentation. Furthermore, he argues that "Gephyraei" were Euboeans or Eretrians and he doubts the reliability of Herodotus' sources. Plutarch and other ancient Greek writers credited the legendary Palamedes of Nauplion on Euboea with the invention of the supplementary letters not found in the original Phoenician alphabet. The distinction between "Eta" and "Epsilon" and between "Omega" and "Omicron", adopted in the Ionian standard, was traditionally attributed to Simonides of Ceos (556-469). Plutarch goes further back to describe an older Greek writing system, similar as he attested to the Egyptian writing. In his “Discourse Concerning Socrates’s
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