And of course it depends on the alphabet, so Hebrew and Arabic would alphabetize following the order of their alphabets.  Chinese alphabetizes by the number of strokes in a character.  I have no idea what Japanese or Korean do with their mixed writing systems.

Herb

From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Beth Young
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Subject: Re: Alphabetizing

When I worked at a public library, we would have listed J. Navy first. (You alphabetize word by word, secondarily by letters within a word.) But there are complications.  Here's a link to the ALA filing rules: http://www.ala.org/tools/libfactsheets/alalibraryfactsheet27

Of course the whole alphabet is arbitrary, so you could probably use any system you wanted, as long as it enabled you to find things again.

Beth

Dr. Beth Rapp Young
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From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Geoffrey Layton [[log in to unmask]]
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Subject: Alphabetizing
I have never seen an alphabet question on the list, but there's a first time for everything:
If you're alphabetizing J. Navy and Jade (two colors), which comes first?
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