who/how alphabetized the alphabet for the English language? Is it random or is there some sort of guiding principle I’m unaware of? Bonus points if there’s actually a ‘better’ alphabetical order out there?
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The Phoenicians did 4000 years ago. Most “western” alphabets (essentially most of the eurasian writing systems that developed west of India) were in some way inspired by or based on the Phoenician alphabet, and many alphabets (including Arabic and Hebrew as well as our own Latin alphabet) follow the same basic order of letters, give or take a few.
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