What does the alphabet mean?
The alphabet is a conventional array of letters that we commit to memory as children. Our letters don't seem to have any inherent meanings (well, except for ones like "a," which are standalone words), but we agree that they ought to be ordered thus: A, B, C, D, etc.
If you're like me, from time to time, you might have asked yourself why. Our alphabet, of…
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