Origin. If there's a word that is spelled the same until the other has more letters, then the word with less letters is first.
Greece is first (since it's the original home of the Olympics), followed by the other countries in alphabetical order, and then the host nation comes at the end.
There are no numbers in alphabetical order! In alphanumeric order, numbers come first.
The word scoreboard comes first in alphabetical order.
In comes before indict in alphabetical order.
it is
The word do comes first in alphabetical order before doing.
In alphabetical order, "Mac" comes before "Mc."
Cities comes before city's in alphabetical order.
alabama
Afghanistan.
you are come first than you will
"Girls" comes first in alphabetical order, followed by "girl's" and then "girls'".