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by hug 2651 days ago
I see no reason this doesn’t work for Lon and Lond and London.

It turns out that people in London, England have to type 2 more letters, a task that I am sure is not beyond them.

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> It turns out that people in London, England

Together with all the other millions of people that write London around the world.

According to google trends London is searched about 20-30 times more often than Lon.

Sorting Lon before London (in absence of more information) seems a bad choice.

And I wonder how much the Lon search results are inflated by this same phenomenon? It may be a lot worse than 20-30 times.
It is not beyond them, but tailoring experience for your user base to make their experience easier is almost always a good thing.