"You can look things up in it if you already know where people live." Alphabetical order upended social hierarchy in two ways, Flanders says. Firstly, the neutrality of this ordering system meant ...

I wonder if the alphabet is in the right order.” (Sometimes I feel like Ms ... about and understand the periodic table. One of the things that she has learned is that if kids come to understand ...

Putting names on ballot papers in alphabetical order creates a strange statistical anomaly in local elections, writes Anthony Reuben. A paper published in the journal Parliamentary Affairs ...

Under IOC rules, the rest of the participating countries make their entrance in alphabetical ... things are considered in sorting the countries’ names- the number of strokes, and the order ...