ITunes Library alphabet is messed up!

For a little while now my alphabetical order in iTunes has been out of wack.
It goes: A, E, I, O, U, H, K, L, M, N, P, B and so on, completely out of order (but with vowels first... conveniently?)
It does this no matter what I sort by (songs, artists, albums, genre etc.) it's ALWAYS this weird messed up order. How do I change this back to the normal alphabetical order (you know... the one that goes A, B, C, D etc.)???

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