History of the Greek alphabet derive from omicron with a line drawn under it. Long and were written with the digraphs "ει" and "ου", respectively, whereas long and short , , were never distinguished in writing. In 403/2 BC, following the devastating defeat in the Peloponnesian War and the restoration of democracy, the Athenians voted to abandon the old Attic alphabet ("Pre-Euclidean alphabet") and to introduce a standardized variant of the eastern Ionic alphabet, after a proposal by archon Eucleides. This Euclidean alphabet included eta and omega, which concluded the process of adapting the Phoenician script so that all vowels could be written systematically, thus
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