We organize the alphabet from A to Z.
Why? Because millennia ago, the Phoenicians did. No one knows how they landed on that particular sequence, but it has stuck for millennia because no one decided to reorganize it into something logical when it was still feasible to do so, before dictionaries and the Alphabet Song and ten thousand ABC books.
How much more illogic will we be saddled with in the future because no one will think to instill logic before the chaos gets ingrained?
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