Zack Hill by John Deering and John Newcombe for March 21, 2014

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    Templo S.U.D.  almost 11 years ago

    Besides, it’s called zeta!

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    cabalonrye  almost 11 years ago

    Occidental or ionan alphabet? alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta.

    So Zack is wrong.

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    EJ Burke  almost 11 years ago

    Unless you include the even older ‘digamma’ or ‘wau’ at 6.

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    Comic Minister Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    Agreed Tanja.

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    Piksea Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    Zeta is the 6th letter in the Greek alphabet: alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, ZETA, eta, theta….

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    pschearer Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    The Z ended up at the end because when the Latins adopted the Greek alphabet (via the Etruscans), they had no z-sound and so left out the zeta. But later when they encountered Greek learning, they borrowed the zeta and put it at the end of their alphabet.

    (Yesterday on another comic site someone called me a pedant. I LOVE YOU GUYS! You’re my kind of people.)

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