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Come to think of it, why do our letters have a standard order, and if they have to, why that one?

Because some Phoenician jerk picked it arbitrarily about ten thousand years or so ago and it stuck.
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  Basically. 99 Percent Invisible did a podcast on this very topic: Episode 468 Alphabetical Order

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