Most of us learn the alphabet at kindergarten, singing our way from 'A for apple' through to 'Z for zebra' without ever stopping to wonder why the letters are arranged in that particular sequence. Yet ...

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.

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 ...

Yes, folks, another controversial story about early voting results. The selection process for the Pro Bowl is one-third fan voting, one-third players and one-third coaches, and the online balloting to ...

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, external ...