People have been putting things in alphabetic order for about 3500 years—because it’s useful. There are variations in the order of letters and what letters are included in English, Hebrew, Greek, Cyrillic etc but all known alphabets begin with A or equivalent. There were alphabets even before the phonetic alphabet.
Another interesting question is why keyboards were not arranged alphabetically—it goes back to the experience of telegraph operators and the mechanical difficulty of keys arranged alphabetically and thus the QWERTY keyboard was designed. Donna Y [email protected] > On Dec 9, 2019, at 3:55 PM, 'Jim Russell' via General <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Why are so many things arraigned alphabetically, when there is absolutely no > intrinsic order to the letters of the alphabet? (Is there anything else that > needs a mumbled child's song to remember?) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
