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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The principal benefit of traditional alphabetical order is felt in reference material. Although the corpus of reference texts available and searchable electronically grows ever larger, many of us find ...