• floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    15 hours ago

    That’s not being pedantic, it’s just wrong. Do you not call the order of words in a dictionary “alphabetical order”?

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      3 hours ago

      Of course, but this is a 6? year old. Read the question as a child would.

      Put the following words in alphabetical order

      All fine, but if they don’t know the word “alphabetical” the clarification is…

      (The order they come in the alphabet)

      Confusing. “They” refers to the words and alphabet contains letters. If it had been “dictionary” and not “alphabet” then that would be clear.