In the 20th century, alphabetical order appeared to be immortal. No longer could anyone at home in an alphabetic writing system remember a time when the automatic response to ordering had not been ...

Throughout history, alphabetical order has acted as an unsung agent of democratization, providing an organizational framework based not on social hierarchies, but an easily memorized string of letters ...

Answer Man: Here's a question for you. Why do newspapers in general, and the News-Leader specifically, have letters designating sections and not put the sections in alphabetical order? — Carey Higgins ...

Have you ever looked at a keyboard and wondered why the letters are randomly arranged, instead of being in alphabetical order? Well, the reason goes back about 150 years, when Christopher Sholes and ...