> 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