Counting elements in a list wildcard

John Machin sjmachin at lexicon.net
Tue Apr 25 04:34:30 EDT 2006


On 25/04/2006 3:15 PM, Edward Elliott wrote:
>  Phoneme matching seems overly complex and might
> grab things like Tsu-zi.

It might *only* if somebody had a rush of blood to the head and devised 
yet another phonetic key "algorithm". Tsuzi does *not* give the same 
result as any of Suzi, Suzie, Susi, and Susie when pushed through any of 
the following; Soundex, NYSIIS, Metaphone, Dolby, and Caverphone. None 
of them throw away the 'T' sound.




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