James Gleick

Alphabetical order had to be invented to help people organize the first dictionaries. On the other hand, we may have reached a point where alphabetical order has gone obsolete. Wikipedia is ostensibly in alphabetical order, but, when you think about it, it's not in any order at all. You use a search engine to get into it.

American Author

Jayma Mays

The other day, I noticed I'd arranged my spices in alphabetical order when I was on the phone, without even realizing, and when I was a kid I was constantly cleaning and organizing things - my toys, my sister's cosmetics.

American Actress

Sue Grafton

At that point, I sat down and made an alphabetical list of all the crime related words I could think of. So here I am now, nearly half-way through, probably tied up until the year 2015 or SO.

American Novelist

Dianne Reeves

I came up at a time in the late '60s, early '70s where music was without boundaries. You'd go into a music store, and the music was in alphabetical order. I hadn't heard of that word 'genre.

American Musician

Natasha Bedingfield

I love arranging my music, not in alphabetical order but by mood, creating playlists for when I have energy and want to work out or go-out party mixes and music to chill out to.

British Musician

Joseph Heller

Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.

Erma Bombeck

I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order.

American Journalist

Mary Doria Russell

In my worldview, there are filers, and there are pilers. Filers think alphabetically. Pilers think geologically.

American Writer

John Ralston Saul

Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order.

Canadian Author

Casey Stengel

Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.

American Baseball Player

Understanding 'alphabetical' helps grasp how items are organized based on letter sequence for easy finding.

Sorting Principle

'Alphabetical' is a vital concept for indexing in databases, libraries, or shops to streamline search processes.

Indexing Tool

It specifies the exact order of arrangement, from A to Z, which removes ambiguity in organized lists.

Sequence Clarity

'Alphabetical' traces the evolution of writing systems, distinguishing alphabets from pictographs or hieroglyphs.

Writing Evolution

Studying 'alphabetical systems' offers insights into language structure, sound-symbol correspondence.

Language Analysis

'Alphabetical' encompasses different alphabets worldwide, not just the English one, showing linguistic diversity.

Linguistic Diversity

 So the next rule of the game is also pretty simple. You just have to find another term and look that up. Now in the old days, that meant getting out a volume and browsing through it alphabetically, maybe getting sidetracked, that was fun. Nowadays there are hundreds of links to choose from. I can go literally anywhere in the world,

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 no longer to be seen again. I used to have a list of these extinct apples, and when I would go out and give a presentation, I would pass the list out in the audience. I wouldn't tell them what it was, but it was in alphabetical order, and I would tell them to look for their names, their family names, their mother's maiden name.

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 of a terrorism event itself, but it was a huge challenge for the families, for the foundation, certainly for the first responders, and there was a negotiation that went forth and a solution was found to actually create not an order in terms of chronology, or in terms of alphabetical,

Jake Barton: The museum...

 and then place the water glass to the left of it at an angle. If you're like me and can never remember which goes where, think water, wine, w-a, w-i; a, i; they go left to right in alphabetical order. Another To remember left and right with the bread and the drinks,

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 from one of the steps that has no arrows pointing to it— which is the same as having no marks in its row. If there’s more than one, a convenient way to choose is to pick the one that’s alphabetically earliest, though other selection methods can work just as well.

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 The nations that brought it up when we had the speeches of the national leaders -- it tended to be the leaders of the small island states, the low-lying island states. And by this weird quirk of alphabetical order of the nations, a lot of the low-lying states,

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 other people said we asked them to do the same thing as you can see here we have the days of the week I want you to put them in alphabetical order for me okay you struggled with this task you're

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 corresponds to a different alphabetical output. This second function sets up a logical relationship where performing a process on the input has corresponding effects on its mapped output.