If you could rearrange the alphabet, how would It go.?

Question

and no putting U and I together.

Answer 1

qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm

in other words, the querty keyboard.

Answer 2

Well, I wouldn't re-order it by the "qwerty" keyboard, since that order is pretty arbitrary, and not even the best for accomplishing its original purpose

I would also hesitate to use the frequency order (though there is a decent argument to be made for that), since that can vary over time, and certainly from one language to another (and several languages use this same alphabet).

I think what I would do is try to organize them "phonologically", that is, to take the main sound or type of sound each is used to indicate, then organize them with sounds made in a related way. For example, the first set below is all the "stops" (where the airflow is actually completely stopped), starting with those made at the FRONT of the mouth, and back from there (from lips to teeth to palate)... Note that I place them in pairs of "unvoiced" [not using the voice] + "voiced".

The basic groups are
1) stops
2) fricatives (air partially stopped)
3) liquids
4) "semi-vowels" (which in some context turn into vowel sounds)
5) vowels

p b t d k q g
f v c s z x j
m n l r
w h y
a e i o u
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Bruno's post went up while I was writing mine, but I see there is some similarity in his thinking. If I were to follow his method, I would move W back next to Y, because they are BOTH "semi-vowels". (W can be a vowel when it is COMBINED with other vowels, e.g., law, few, how [note the sound W makes is just like the sound of U in laud, feud, house)

Answer 3

I would have all five vowels at the beginning, with the Y - which can sound both a vowel and a consonant - immediately following, acting as a buffer between the set of vowels and the set of consonants:
AEIOU Y BCDFGHJKLMNPQRSTVWXZ

Answer 4

I wouldn't bother. The English language is hard enough now to keep straight without mixing up the alphabet.
Sorry not the answer you were looking for but that's just me!!!!!!!!!!!11

Answer 5

etaonishrldcupfmgbwvkqxjz
(Order of frequency of the letters in normal English prose, although there is variation, especially in the middle orders)

Answer 6

As long as Q, X, and Z were first, I wouldn't care about the rest...they get the short end of the stick as it is!

Answer 7

I wouldn't really rearrange it,only change them to #'s,then change #'s to letters,haha

Answer 8

acbdejgklmnuilolqruzswm

Answer 9

qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm

Answer 10

lovetahursinqpcdbfgmjkzwyx