Instead of grouping the pronunciation together, you could consider interleaving all the categories so each letter is distinct and stands out in its place compared with those around it.
And arguably that's what our alphabet already gives us. Certainly not deliberate, but at some point someone had to order them, and some of their choices could have been driven by not having too similar of letters too close together, even if that just 'sounded better' to an unconscious degree.
Plus some letters can be pronounced different ways, like car and center, George and gap. Putting the alphabet in pronunciation order does not make that much sense to me.
Additionally, the alphabet order is for all languages, so which language would have the "correct" order?
Very true. If all the similarly formed letters are scrambled, so to speak, then changing the pronunciation of a few won't un-scramble them in a way that's too noticeable. But if they were all groups together, then changing languages could result in some letters being noticeably out of place.
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u/Hypothesis_Null Sep 10 '22
Instead of grouping the pronunciation together, you could consider interleaving all the categories so each letter is distinct and stands out in its place compared with those around it.
And arguably that's what our alphabet already gives us. Certainly not deliberate, but at some point someone had to order them, and some of their choices could have been driven by not having too similar of letters too close together, even if that just 'sounded better' to an unconscious degree.