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[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 54 points 3 months ago

The question is poorly worded. It asks for words in the order they come in the alphabet. Words aren't in the alphabet. Letters are in the alphabet, so they reordered the letters.

[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 months ago

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

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

No I call them witchcraft

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 months ago

Is that what was wrong here?

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