I bet if you recontextualized them by order number it'd make it a lot easier. Does S come before Q? No idea, but the 19th letter definitely doesn't come before the 17th.
fun fact! if you take the first ten braille letters and add the lower left dot, you get the next ten! add both bottom dots and you get the last five, skipping w!
learning braille has enabled me to hop about the alphabet freely.
w is r backwards, because french doesn't use the letter (hence 'oui'). and if you have a rhotacism, you'll be swapping rs for ws anyways, so that's easy to remember.
«The adoption of alphabetical order was part of the transition from the primacy of memory to that of written works.» —https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabetical_order
It was formalized so readers could easily locate a word in a written/printed encyclopædia or dictionary.
Previously many "alphabetic orders" were used; however, the exact sequence varied widely—not only from language to language but from place to place…and even from person to person. Printing caused a standard order to be agreed-upon…or imposed more like. Prolly when spëling bekaim standardised too. 😆
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learning braille has enabled me to hop about the alphabet freely.
If it helps at all - every 5th letter is EJOTY (edge o' tea) so you can start close to your destination :)
It was formalized so readers could easily locate a word in a written/printed encyclopædia or dictionary.