Results: Alphabetizing (What Need Not Be Alphabetized?)

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If months arrived alphabetically, the first one of the year would be April, and the last would be September. Were this ever to happen--don't your your breath on it!--would you want the same weather, holidays, etc. to occur that on the month in current chronological order (as in the weather, holidays, etc. that now happen in January to take place in then what would be April) or for the holidays, weather and whatnot that now occurs in the month as it's placed on the calendar to follow to its new placement (tings that now go on in April to occur in what's now January)?
The first choice
7%
79 votes
Indifferent/Unsure
20%
222 votes
The secod choice
5%
55 votes
What again now?
22%
239 votes
Neither!
45%
490 votes
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2.
Alphabetize the names of days, and Friday would be where Sunday is now, while Wednesday would fall where Saturday now lands. Without going through the same explanation in the previous question about months, which choice would you prefer?
The first choce
8%
84 votes
Undecided/Indifferent
21%
231 votes
The second
5%
52 votes
Huh?
22%
234 votes
Neither!
45%
484 votes
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3.
Were single numerals...and, subsequently the larger numbers they comprise... alphabetized, five would lead while two wold be last. Would you rather that the words for those numbers represent the the amounts they do now (for example, what we now would call one would listed as five but still comprise a single unit of what's being counted) or instead count five things before you count, seven before six, and the like?
The first chloce
6%
68 votes
Indifferent/Uncertain
21%
223 votes
The second choice
4%
46 votes
Huh wha'?
25%
267 votes
Neither!
44%
481 votes
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4.
The periodic table of elements is arranged by atomic weight, the properties each element exhibits, and their relationships to each other. Alphabnetize them, however, and it's not hydrogen that takes the lead, but actinium, which curretnly resides at 89 in that chart. Zirconium, presetnly sitting at 40, would alpanbetcally be last at 118 instead of Oganesson. To your reckoning would that reassignation of the table's elements have any bearing on your life? (thanks to https://www.lenntech.com/periodic/name/alphabetic.htm for presenting already alphabetized elements)
Yes (if only becauser I've work and/or a hobby where it would matter)
8%
89 votes
Uncommitted/Uncaring
44%
480 votes
No, or at least not that I'm aware
48%
516 votes
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5.
Even the most athetstic of atheists reading may know that the Holy Bible's books and epistles start in their usualluy set order at Genesis in the Old Testament and wrap up with Revelation concluding the New Testament. Apply alphabetization to reading the text, however, and you'd commnce with Acts, which chronicles the birth of the Christian church after Jesus Christ's s resurrection, and wraps up with the book named for the minor prophet Zephaniah. Have you or would you read the Bible, or whatever text you deem sacred, in such a fashion?
Yes to at least one of the above
9%
96 votes
Matybe?/I view no text as sacred.
11%
123 votes
No, I'll stick with (an)other method(s).
25%
267 votes
Not Applicable
55%
599 votes

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