Why does od -cx display the characters backwards and with no alignment between the character & the hex value?

V=56
G=47
...

alpi104:

+ print 'VG Name               appl_vg'
0000000   V   G       N   a   m   e
        4756 4e20 6d61 2065 2020 2020 2020 2020
0000020                           a   p   p   l   _   v   g  \n
        2020 2020 2020 7061 6c70 765f 0a67

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