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.

Here is the list of all 50 states in the United States in alphabetical order from Alabama to Washington: ...

Why not change the order in which we teach the alphabet to the QWERTY keyboard layout, Linda Phillips asks (Letters, 29 February). Well, not every language that uses the Latin alphabet uses that ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A-B-C-D-E (etc) is not as hard-wired as you think. Consider William Salesbury, a Welsh scholar from ...