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Does English feel like alphabet soup?
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In today's episode, a listener asks us the difference between the words alphabet and number.
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hey michelle how's it going today hey lindsey i'm good how are you good good happy to be on the mic i have a question for you today okay so do you tend to organize things in alphabetical order i mean you just moved into a new home did you go and organize your cereal boxes according to the alphabet?
No way. I do not have time for alphabetical order.
I suppose maybe one day, but I'm not that particular about ordering things.
Now, if for something at work I was filing things or really needed to be an alphabetical order, that's different, but certainly not in my personal life.
What about you? No, nothing in my life is in alphabetical order.
I can't think of a single thing.
It is too much work, Michelle, and I don't have the time.
Exactly. So today we are going to answer a question from a listener.
This question comes to us from YouTube.
Yes. I'll go ahead and read the question.
So the listener says, what an interesting topic.
I was wondering what the difference is between alphabet and number.
okay so it's kind of a broad question right so we're gonna answer it and then we're gonna go into we're gonna dive a little bit deeper and we're gonna give you some expressions with the word alphabet and with the word number so um that's the direction that we're gonna take this question in today so it's a good question yeah we get a lot of great questions on youtube so guys don't forget that our show is very much on youtube so if you go over to yeah very much so if you go over to YouTube and type in All Ears English Podcast, we will come up.
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All right. So ask your question over on YouTube.
All right. Perfect.
All right. So, Lindsey, what's the difference between alphabet and number?
Okay. So alphabet is the product of all the letters known as the ABCs, right?
And number is just 123, 67, 12, 114.
Yeah, exactly. So interestingly enough, this was one thing I hadn't, I guess I hadn't thought about before.
Alphabet really encompasses all of the letters, but is there a word that encompasses all of the numbers?
A word than just the numerical system, I guess, right?
Right, exactly. But we don't really say that.
I guess it's because there are only 26 letters and there are infinite numbers.
No, we don't have any kind of word that would say.
Right, it's just numbers.
So it would be alphabet and the numbers.
So, but we're going to talk about that more.
But alphabet, think ABCs, numbers think 1, 2, 3.
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