I had always heard that there was a famous counterexample to alphabetization, the Zucker-Cox Theorem (where they flipped the order for obvious reasons), but apparently the non-alphebetization in this case was apocryphal.

But indeed, non-alphabetization is very rare.

I had always heard that there was a famous counterexample to alphabetization, the Zucker–Cox Theorem (where they flipped the order for obvious reasons), but apparently the non-alphabetization in this case was apocryphal.

But indeed, non-alphabetization is very rare.