Because it would be weird if the alphabet wasn't in alphabetical order.
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2025
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So A came from animal, B from bag, C from chaise longue, D from Fish, E from person, F from spoon, G from stick. Fascinating.
So… how did they decide on the order for the proto-thing?
It worked for the little song they sang..."🎶animal, bottle, snake, fish, man; round stick, u stick, fallen ladder, brand..." I'm pretty sure it all rhymed and scanned in Proto-Sinaitic.
Uh, what
As someone whose primary language has a slightly modified latin alphabet, I always mess up the english one towards the end.. y is way too far back
The alphabet should go in this order:
aeiou ywh vf bp mnlr zs jdt gqckx
Voiced before unvoiced, tongue placement only gradually moving if possible.
Of course that's very anglocentric because in most European languages j is pronounced like y, not like dzsh, so would go been y and w, and for example in German, z is pronounced ts, so should go the other side of s, next to d.