Why is the alphabet in that order?

Question

Is it because of the song?

Answer 1

Because that is the order Campbell uses when they add letters to their alphabet soup.

Answer 2

It is the order of the Latin alphabet used as the alphabet in most European languages. It is generally held that the Latins adopted the western variant of the Greek alphabet in the 7th century BC from Cumae, a Greek colony in southern Italy. Roman legend credits the introduction to one Evander, son of the Sibyl, supposedly 60 years before the Trojan war, but there is no historical proof of this claim. From the Cumae alphabet, the Etruscan alphabet was derived and the Latins finally adopted 21 of the original 26 Etruscan letters.

The original Latin alphabet was:

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C stood for both g and k.
I stood for both i and j.
V stood for both u and v.
Later, probably during the 3rd century BC, the Z was dropped and a new letter G was placed in its position. An attempt by the emperor Claudius to introduce three additional letters was short-lived, but after the conquest of Greece in the first century BC the letters Y and Z were, respectively, adopted and readopted from the Greek alphabet and placed at the end. Now the new Latin alphabet contained 23 letters:

W is a letter made up from two Vs or Us. It was added in late Roman times to represent a Germanic sound. The letters U and J, similarly, were originally not distinguished from V and I, respectively. That is W why it is pronounced as double U. It was not until the Middle Ages that the letter J (representing non-syllabic I) and the letters U and W (to distinguish them from V) were added. Similarly, it is possible to add more letters but there is currently no significant demand to do so.

Answer 3

The alphabet is in order, bacause in life everything is suppost to be organized an accorded to a rule.Before you be born you have to be concide, then your're a baby , toddle,big boy or girl, teen.......etc.

Answer 4

I believe that it was because at the time scholors were trying to create a written language for English, Greek was the only other non-pictoral written language, so that was used as the base. (A, B, C, D, E vs. Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon...see the similarities?)

Answer 5

OK...so if it was in a different order, you wouldn't need to ask then, right?

Yeah, somebody mentioned the Greek alpha's, and that is correct to an extent...ours is based on alpha, beta, etc.

Answer 6

My Guess Is Because Thats the Way It Is!

Answer 7

Because it's not in numerical order.

Answer 8

I do not know the answer...but i know that your Q is the BEST question....but it may be due to various type of pronunciations...

Answer 9

just because

Answer 10

because!