Re: Generalizations about English spelling --> "Sounds like"

From: Nicholas Bodley
Message: 5129
Date: 2005-07-18

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 21:02:47 -0400, suzmccarth <suzmccarth@...>
wrote much else, including:

> Personally, I am waiting for a better spell-checker - one that will
> accept 'wut' for 'what'

There are "sounds like" algorithms, but whether they are included in
spelling checkers, I don't know; perhaps they are.
Soundex is the (trade?) name of an algorithm, or something like it.

=::=

Sorry; have fallen behind in reading Qalam, again; only ~1,500 unread
messages (all e-mail) this past month...

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