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by bmicraft 989 days ago
They sure are letters, but they aren't generally thought of as being in the alphabet (which seems to be why they are just kinda tacked on after a space on wikipedia) and get ordered as if they where just the base letter (mostly)
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Note that in Swedish they are considered letters, and in Danish and Norwegian Æ, Ø and Å are letters.
Letters which are sorted separately from what we'd think of as the base characters in English (they appear at the end of the alphabet, as W X Y Z Æ Ø Å, with C often omitted in Norwegian).

By contrast, my French dictionary has énorme nestled between enorgueillir and enquiérir. (Looking for an example does underscore some of the patterns in the language: page after page of ét~ with only a few et~ and one êt~ among them; pages of ex~ with no éx~ at all.)

Similarly in Swedish, W was not considered a letter but just a variant of V, so in phone books etc all the W names were mixed in with V names. This was changed in 2006 due to an increase in English loanwords.