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by iwnit on October 31st, 2009

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Who invented the alphabetical order for sorting information? Where did it start to be widely used?

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  • by Suby the Coat on November 11th, 2009

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    The alphabetical order for sorting information cannot be ascribed to anyone in particular.
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    The first things ever to be sorted in an alphabetical order must be the words in a dictionary. But who created the first dictionary? We are clueless.

    We can only get information like:
    'The first Dictionary fascicle was published on 1 February 1884—-twenty-three years after Coleridge's sample pages.'

    http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=first+English+Dictionary+pulished&gwp=13
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    I must say alphabetical sorting of information evolved over a long period of time rather than was invented by any particular person on a specific date, month or year.

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    • Suby: thank you, this is very sensible.
      :-)

      iwnit

      by iwnit on November 12th, 2009

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