sorting words ?

[jbv at souslelogo.com]

One more remark on this topic : it's surprising that words
can't be sorted, when the following actually works :
   get "95 1 3" & return & "95 2 1" & return & "125 1 2"
   sort lines of it ascending numeric by word 3 of each

In that case, words are used as a sorting parameter; so why
not use them also for sorting words in a variable ?
What's the logic behind ?

Thanks
jb