ok, finally i found out:
cat all_nouns.txt | cut -f1,3 | sort -t$'\t' -k2,2 -k1,1 works...
problem was in specifying tabulator as delimiter

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Tomáš Kyselica <tomas.kyselica@gmail.com> wrote:
sorry,

also --stable was used for sort.

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Tomáš Kyselica <tomas.kyselica@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Sir/Madam,

  I have issuing this command:

cat all_nouns.txt | cut -f1,3 | sort -t\t -k2,1

I expected that second column will be sorted A1,A2,B1,B2,C1,C2, but it is
only almost true; at the end of file, I see:
C2
... [many C2]
C2
B1
B1
B2
B2
A2
C1
A2
which is not sorted.
Attaching the file.

Regards
Tomas Kyselica