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Before the Danish language adopted the letter "å" (in 1948), the vowel was written as "aa". In the Danish alphabet, "å" is the last letter. Therefore a list of three Danish city names would be correctly sorted as:

  * Albertslund
  * Odense
  * Aarhus

This feels like material for another Tom Scott video.

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Not Tom Scott, but Dylan Beattie has done a handful of interesting talks[1] effectively on "there's no such thing as plain text" which in part covers this sort of thing. In fact, I think your Danish cities list is actually one of his examples.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd5uJ7Nlvvo

Finally had time to watch it, that was excellent. Thanks for the link.

Pike matchbox.

And to make it more interesting, Sweden also has the letter "å", but it's in the 27th place in the alphabet (followed by "ä" and "ö"). In the Danish/Norwegian alphabet, the letter "å" is the last letter of the alphabet.

Haha. Like it was enough with ” tooghalvfems”.

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