Yet alphabetical order, that early-ingrained knowledge we ... Photo shows The colourful logo for the ABC Book Club, featuring flying books around text. Do you love books? So do we!

Throughout history, alphabetical order has acted as an unsung agent of ... But the adoption of an ordered Latin alphabet (the system used in most European and English languages) was far from ...

Anything ever written in a book, everything ever known, could be compressed, he believed, into a card system: one nugget of knowledge per index card, all filed in alphabetical order, whence any ...

There are 26 letters in the English alphabet. But how did they get there, and why do they look the way they do? Michael Rosen tackles these questions and more in his new book Alphabetical.

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. Who created the alphabet and decided its ...

Have you ever looked at a keyboard and wondered why the letters are randomly arranged, instead of being in alphabetical order? Well, the reason goes back about 150 years, when Christopher Sholes ...

Heti created her latest book, which arrives in stores Feb. 6, by extracting lines from 10 years of her diaries and arranging them in alphabetical, rather than chronological or contextual, order to ...