# Greek Alphabet Soup

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greek-alphabet-soup/64503>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 6, 2001, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greek-alphabet-soup/64503 "2001-05-06T03:05:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greek-alphabet-soup/64503/1 "2001-05-06T03:05:18Z")

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Quick question: Is there such a thing as Greek alphabet soup? If so, how do they do the Xi’s?

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**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greek-alphabet-soup/64503/2 "2001-05-06T03:12:19Z")

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I dunno, but there’s also some difficulties with a capital Theta.

I suppose they could use lowercase letters instead.

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**Author:** ![Zarathustra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/898d66/32.png) [@Zarathustra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zarathustra)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greek-alphabet-soup/64503/3 "2001-05-06T03:30:17Z")

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What about Cyrillic alphabet soup? The B’s and N’s are supposed to be backwards, but how can you tell?