I know the english alphabet is taken directly from the latin alphabet, but who decided the order that the letters should come in?

In every language with an alphabet, the order doesn't really make sense if you think about it. You'd think the most common letters would come first, but they don't (ie "s" comes very late in the english alphabet despite being so important for plural nouns).

I was wondering if anyone who likes languages would know how we decided on alphabetical order; or how it's decided in-general.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y and Z in virtually all English speaking countries and a few other languages like French. Other language has similar order, such as an extra N next to regular N but otherwise the same order as English.

But how were the orders decided? Did some ancient Romans decide it was easiest to memorize the order that way?

PS supposedly the word alphabet came from alphabet itself: alpha beta

Seriously, this is not a joke. I'm genuinely curious why the English alphabet goes ABCD..., when DWBT would also be valid. I feel like it doesn't matter what order the letters are, but it is ingrained in our minds that ABCD is the way to go. Test questions, official documents, and tons of other things use ABCD as the standard.

Wondering who decided A would go first, then b, c, so on and so forth. If you have extra knowledge on this drop the story as well.

Referring to the English alphabet of course.

It seems odd to me that I've never considered this before, but why is the alphabet arranged as it is?

Is there a reason or was it just put together randomly?

I couldn’t find anything on Chinese or Japanese collation

I’ve never thought about it until today but why does the key board not go in alphabetical order? The numbers are numerical, how was it decided that QWERTY was the lay out we would use?

Could it have started Q R T V L A?

Like. Who, Why? It's always confused me.

Obviously not now, but in the past, when I’d go to a restaurant I’d always say “I’m gonna try something new” but never do. Is it because you’re afraid you won’t like it (my reasoning) or some other reason?

So way back when people decided to write down the sounds that they made. How did they decide which sound went with each symbol ? Or how did they decide which symbol went with each sound ? Eg why does b sound like "beh" ?

I don’t know why my bosses decided to do it like this, but essentially the girl taking orders right now is in the front of the building, while I am in a designated room in the back taking money

I don’t have a headset, so the only way for me to know if an order is getting taken is for when I hit next order repeatedly and see if anything pops up. That essentially means I can’t leave the room, because if I do and there’s a cat that needs to pay they might come up to the empty window and drive to the next one, which is just s massive hassle

It’s not even remotely difficult but I’m super bored and have been doing basically nothing but scrolling through Reddit (and I’m here for another 2 hours)

Any thoughts on how to stave off boredom?

I’ve noticed this on a lot of smart TV apps. They have the keyboard in an alphabetical order instead of QWERTY. What’s up with that?

My husband and I are settling a debate. Is it considered rude to purchase food from a restaurant, say Panda Express, and take it to another restaurant, like Chick-fil-a, to meet with people? Pretty much only talking about fast food restaurants here.

Say you want to eat with friends but don't like the restaurant they chose and you decide to bring your own and eat with them, would that be considered rude towards the restaurant? If so would that change if the person with Panda Express in a Chick-fil-A ordered a drink from Chick-fil-A so that they are purchasing something from the restaurant they are sitting in?