Because it would be weird if the alphabet wasn't in alphabetical order.
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2025
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So A came from animal, B from bag, C from chaise longue, D from Fish, E from person, F from spoon, G from stick. Fascinating.
So… how did they decide on the order for the proto-thing?
It worked for the little song they sang..."🎶animal, bottle, snake, fish, man; round stick, u stick, fallen ladder, brand..." I'm pretty sure it all rhymed and scanned in Proto-Sinaitic.
Uh, what
As someone whose primary language has a slightly modified latin alphabet, I always mess up the english one towards the end.. y is way too far back
The alphabet should go in this order:
aeiou ywh vf bp mnlr zs jdt gqckx
Voiced before unvoiced, tongue placement only gradually moving if possible.
Of course that's very anglocentric because in most European languages j is pronounced like y, not like dzsh, so would go been y and w, and for example in German, z is pronounced ts, so should go the other side of s, next to d.
in what order though? each language that uses the latin alphabet has its own order... now, yes, you can see how they're all based on the same tradition of ordering, but they're distinct.
eg, some (the foolish, shortsighted, may i say heretical) put their extra letters at the end. the sane silent majority merge them into their alphabets so they come after the "base" letter they were derived from.