ok but if we rearranged it what would even come first
-Cinnay- on
Yes it does? How else would we sort things aphabetically?
Chuck923 on
u/bot-sleuth-bot
Candid-Culture3956 on
Over 90% of Reddit is now bots and kids
Pe5t on
Stares at keyboard in front of him..
KoolKat5000 on
It helps you make sure you haven’t excluded a letter.
WeedOg420AnimeGod on
In what order
pablothenice on
There is a perfect reason for that. And the reason is math.
Liraeyn on
I kind of assumed it was creation order
The_Jizzard_Of_Oz on
Luckily there is an accepted order, from A to Å.
ingoding on
It’s to match the song obviously.
Fritzo2162 on
It it weren’t in order the Alphabet Song would make NO sense.
duggee315 on
Ok. But you wont remember all the letters without the alphabet song. If everyone replied to this post with the alphabet typed out of order,randomly, just from memory, I bet half would miss a letter.
FLiP_J_GARiLLA on
r/Iam14andthisisdeep
ajn63 on
Someone who’s obviously never used a keyboard.
Mr_Fragwuerdig on
…even very early inscriptions (like those from ancient Ugarit) show that the alphabet order was already standardized thousands of years ago—meaning we’re still using a sequence that predates most recorded history.
– Mr GPT.
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unless you’re a computer
ok but if we rearranged it what would even come first
Yes it does? How else would we sort things aphabetically?
u/bot-sleuth-bot
Over 90% of Reddit is now bots and kids
Stares at keyboard in front of him..
It helps you make sure you haven’t excluded a letter.
In what order
There is a perfect reason for that. And the reason is math.
I kind of assumed it was creation order
Luckily there is an accepted order, from A to Å.
It’s to match the song obviously.
It it weren’t in order the Alphabet Song would make NO sense.
Ok. But you wont remember all the letters without the alphabet song. If everyone replied to this post with the alphabet typed out of order,randomly, just from memory, I bet half would miss a letter.
r/Iam14andthisisdeep
Someone who’s obviously never used a keyboard.
…even very early inscriptions (like those from ancient Ugarit) show that the alphabet order was already standardized thousands of years ago—meaning we’re still using a sequence that predates most recorded history.
– Mr GPT.
Uhm… Have we forgotten about libraries?