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minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up22·3 days ago Come to think of it, why do our letters have a standard order, and if they have to, why that one? Because some Phoenician jerk picked it arbitrarily about ten thousand years or so ago and it stuck.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·3 days agoThose dang Arizonans are nothing but trouble, I tells ya…
minus-squareGrimpen@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 days agoBasically. 99 Percent Invisible did a podcast on this very topic: Episode 468 Alphabetical Order
Because some Phoenician jerk picked it arbitrarily about ten thousand years or so ago and it stuck.
Those dang Arizonans are nothing but trouble, I tells ya…
Thank god they make decent ice tea
Basically. 99 Percent Invisible did a podcast on this very topic: Episode 468 Alphabetical Order