> Eric is quite right about SOUNDX. It is Anglo-Amnerican and is
> taken from Don Knuth's <Art of Computer Programming>.
It is a long time since I read that part of my copy of Knuth, and
it currently resides in Canada, while I reside in Germany, but I
seem to recall that he did give a reference for his algorithm.
> It will probably mangle a lot of non-English-like sounmds
I assume sounmds was a typing error! Would SOUNDEX consider it
equivalent to sounds? :-)
Michael