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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1267751483 Title: A place for everything : the curious history of alphabetical order Author: Judith Flanders Publisher: New York : Basic Books, 2022. ©2022 ISBN/ISSN: 9781541601161 1541601165 OCLC:1267751483

  
  

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A place for everything : the curious history of alphabetical order

Author:	Judith Flanders
Publisher:	New York : Basic Books, 2022. ©2022
Edition/Format:	Print book : English : First US editionView all editions and formats
Summary:	Few of us think much of the alphabet and its familiar sing-song order once we've learned it as children. And yet the order of the alphabet, that simple knowledge that we take for granted, plays far more of a role in our lives than we usually consider. From the school register to the telephone book, from dictionaries and encyclopaedias to the library shelves, our lives are ordered from A to Z. This magical system of organization not only guides us to the correct bus route or train schedule or the jar of coriander seeds between the cinnamon and the cumin in the supermarket, but it also, in the library or the bookshop, gives us the ability to sift through centuries of thought and writing, of knowledge and literature. Alphabetical order allows us to sort, to file and to find the information we have, and to locate the information we need. In this entirely original new book, Judith Flanders draws our attention both to the neglected ubiquity of the alphabet and the long and complex history of its rise to prominence.  Read more...
Subjects	Alphabetizing -- History. Information organization -- History. Classement alphabétique -- Histoire. View all subjects
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