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How do you put punctuation in "alphabetical" order?

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Hint: Punctuation (or sometimes interpunction) is the use, whether read silently or aloud, of spacing, conventional signs (called punctuation marks), and specific typographical devices as aids in understanding and correctly reading written text.

Complete answer:
Alphabetical order is a system that places character strings in order based on the position of the characters in the alphabet's conventional order. It is one of the collation methods. A lexicographical order in mathematics is the generalization of the alphabetical order to other types of data, such as digit sequences or numbers.

The punctuation in alphabetical order are:
Ampersand - &
Apostrophe - '
Brace - { }
Bracket - ([ ])
Colon - :
Comma - ,
Dash -
Ellipsis Points or points of Ellipsis or Suspension Points - ...
Exclamation Point - !
Hyphen -
Numerals/Numbers
Parentheses ( )
Period .
Possessives
Question Mark ?
Quotation Marks (Double) -" "
Quotation Marks (Single)- ' '
Semicolon - ;
Slash - /

Note: In languages that do not use alphabets, strictly speaking, they can be written using a syllabary or abugida. The concept behind alphabetical ordering can still be used, provided that the symbols used have an established ordering.

Some computer applications use an alphabetical order version that can be accomplished by means of a very simple algorithm based solely on ASCII or Unicode character codes. This can have non-standard consequences, such as following lower-case letters from all capital letters. See Order ASCIIbetical.