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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
by encom 1y ago
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.
- tpmoney 1y agoNot 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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd5uJ7Nlvvo
- encom 1y agoFinally had time to watch it, that was excellent. Thanks for the link. Pike matchbox.
- plufz 1y agoHaha. Like it was enough with ” tooghalvfems”.
- qw 1y agoAnd 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.