![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A Place for Everything is the first-ever history of a. Alphabetical order allows us to sort, to file and to find the information we have, and to locate the information we need. Discover A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders and millions of other books available at Barnes & Noble. From a New York Times-bestselling historian comes the story of how the alphabet ordered our world. This magical system of organization not only guides us to the correct bus route or train schedule or the jar of coriander seeds between the cinnamon and the cumin in the supermarket, but it also, in the library or the bookshop, gives us the ability to sift through centuries of thought and writing, of knowledge and literature. From the school register to the telephone book, from dictionaries and encyclopaedias to the library shelves, our lives are ordered from A to Z. ![]() And yet the order of the alphabet, that simple knowledge that we take for granted, plays far more of a role in our lives than we usually consider. A Place for Everything: the Curious History of Alphabetical Order Judith Flanders (A66/2021) : r/Alphanumerics 271 subscribers in the Alphanumerics community. Summary: Few of us think much of the alphabet and its familiar sing-song order once we've learned it as children. ![]()
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