alphabetical would dark ride or darkness come first?

Anonymous2013-09-03T02:53:54Z

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Dark ride because the space makes it two words.

Anonymous2013-09-03T02:33:52Z

dark
comes before any longer word starting with those letters.
imagine the chaos in ordering the following
a
a a
a b
a b b
a ba
aa
aa a
-=-
dark aardvaark
dark zone
must come before
darkbeast
-=-
some computer programs ignore "white space" characters. with these
dark beast and darkbeast would be considered "indistinguishable" and darkness would occur before dark ride. This is NOT a "pure" alphabetical ordering. In a "pure" ordering, the space has higher prescedence than "a" - the most common exception is leftmost spaces. " z" would not (and should not) occur before "a".
-=-
does this make more sense?
a
a a
aa
aa a
a b
a ba
a b b
ba
b b

busterwasmycat2013-09-03T05:21:28Z

In the rules of alphabetization that I know and follow, a space comes before any letter. this is why dog comes before dogs, after all. So, dark ride should be before darkness. the space after the k precedes the n.

?2013-09-03T02:33:28Z

Darkness. The n is before the r (in Dark Ride) in the alphabet

?2013-09-03T02:31:12Z

Darkness

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