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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Eli5: Why is the English alphabet in the order they're in?
gpt
The Alphabet that English uses is arranged in a random order, but it's a random order that has been conserved through many languages and about 3000 years or so. It has been long enough that whomever (or more likely, the long line of people) who made the choices that lead to it are all long dead.