Why is the English alphabet in the order it is in? Why is Z on the end and not O for example?

Its a Latin based alphabet, so thats where you should trace its roots to. Most likely its in order they were discovered in.

Perhaps early on they needed a order that everyone could agree upon in order to remember them. Just like how you count 1-10 or more on your hands or the months of the year, they needed to know the letter O came before P, and Z came after Y.

I can imagine many people whose last names start with the later letters of the alphabet would hate this order, or even the people in the middle in case someone decides to go in reverse alphabetical order, it wouldnt matter too much.

Do you know, I never thought about that before. By and large we follow the Greek alphabet, which has omicron for our o and omega where our z is. The only thing I can think of that we use z, like x, so little and so put them at the end. But then we use y and w and v and u's quite a lot, so that doesn't really make sense. Calling all philologists to our aid!

No, that's not correct, cool Freak. Many ther ancient alphabets consistently have the omega at the end. So it's a good question.

I don't know the answer, but it's a good question.

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Not to be pretending that I'm the world's smartest man (although I really am), it's because our alphabet is based on the German alphabet, not Greek. Although I wish it was Greek... I had to memorize that sh!t from alpha betagammadeltaepsilonzetaeta- thetaiotakappalambdamunuphi- omicronpirhosigmatau- upsilonphichipsi to omega.

[sigh]

simple people cavemen came out with it in that order besides if z was where o is you would ask the same in reverse why is o in the back instead of z

http://www.answers.com/topic/english-alphabet

Because of the reason you asked this question today...why not tomarrow?

if O was at the end you would ask the same q

Why is the sky up?

ck this link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_alphab...