Sort months ( with strings ) algorithm

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I have this months array:

["January", "March", "December" , "October" ]

And I want to have it sorted like this:

["January", "March", "October", "December" ]

I'm currently thinking in a "if/else" horrible cascade but I wonder if there is some other way to do this.

The bad part is that I need to do this only with "string" ( that is, without using Date object or anything like that )

What would be a good approach?

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