Any chance alphabetization could be taught to ignore case and commas?

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In the list of 250 most popular hymns, the following "alphabetical" sequence occurs:

Lord Jesus, Think on Me
Lord of All Hopefulness
Lord, Be Glorified
Lord, I Want to Be a Christian (featured)
Lord, Speak to Me That I May Speak
Lord, dismiss us with Thy blessing, Fill our hearts with joy and peace

When you only have six things starting with "Lord" to sift through, this is not a great problem, but when (as often happens at this site) there are hundreds (even after trying to refine one's search), it would be a tremendous help to have the alphabetizing program ignore case and punctuation. The way it stands, it's all to easy to think something isn't there that actually is.

Lord, Be Glorified
Lord, dismiss us with Thy blessing
Lord, I Want to Be a Christian (featured)
Lord Jesus, Think on Me
Lord of All Hopefulness
Lord, Speak to Me That I May Speak

is the order that makes sense to a literate reader of English.