Like anything with hype, it can funnel money

Have you heard about the French hotdog?

The great city of Middelfart ;) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middelfart

In Denmark we have the digraph “aa” that is the same as “å”. Since “å” is the last letter in the Danish alphabet, “aa” must be sorted likewise. Hence the ordering Aalborg -> Allerup -> Middelfart is incorrect and the correct ordering is Allerup -> Middelfart -> Aalborg.

The exception is if two a’s are pronounced as separate vowels e.g. due to compounding words: “ekstra” + “arbejde” gives “ekstraarbejde” but here it is not pronounced as “å” so ekstraarbejde -> ekstrabetaling is correct ordering as well

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_and_Norwegian_alphabet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMx-2s7mZ24 here it is

There are cases where fake places became real since people moved there afterwards

In C# that last one is the null propagation operator. If a is not null then a, else b.