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.

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 ...

This is the Grammar Guy column, a weekly feature written by Curtis Honeycutt. At around age six, I began collecting baseball cards. Almost immediately, I sorted the players on the cards into each of ...

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 ...

Where did we get the A-B-C order of our alphabet and that song children sing to memorize their letters? That’s an interesting question. You people just seem to scintillate lately. The history of the ...