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Why is the English alphabet organized the way it is?

Or any language for that matter. I realize there is coorelation to the Phoenician alphabet, but is there any other reason behind why we go "a,b,c,d,...."?
gpt
As you alluded to, we (English/Germanic/Romance) get it from the Romans. They got if from the Greeks and Etruscans. The Greeks got it from the Phoenicians. Probably etc.

There may have been a logical order to it originally. It might have just sounded nice and therefore memorable in the order it was written. There's a whole thing about number associations to alphabets but that likely came after the order was roughly established. People have hypotheses, no clear answers. It's not clear that we'll ever know one way or the other.