There's also some mismatching caused by the way the modern Greek alphabet and phonetics are mapped into Latin - take for example the second letter of the alphab

There's also some mismatching caused by the way the modern Greek alphabet and phonetics are mapped into Latin - take for example the second letter of the alphabet, "Beta". In Modern Greek it sounds like the latin V (and the letter's name is actually pronounced "Vita" - "vi" as in "video". There are several other mismatches like this which makes it very easy for a Western speaker to pronounce Greek letters and words incorrectly