We often sort letters and words in alphabetical order. This means to order them as they appear in the alphabet. When sorting words in to alphabetical order, we look at the first letter of the word.

There are 26 letters in the English alphabet. But how did they get there, and why do they look the way they do? Michael Rosen tackles these questions and more in his new book Alphabetical. Nobody ...

My husband rolled over in bed the other morning. “I was dreaming about the periodic table. I wonder if the alphabet is in the right order.” (Sometimes I feel like Ms. Frizzle, without her Magic School ...

A, B, C, D, E, F, G—makes you want to hum the alphabet song. But there’s no real reason why people should learn these letters in this order. There are plenty of ...

Why not change the order in which we teach the alphabet to the QWERTY keyboard layout, Linda Phillips asks (Letters, 29 February). Well, not every language that uses the Latin alphabet uses that ...

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 ...