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

From: Nicholas Bodley
Message: 5134
Date: 2005-07-19

On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:21:16 -0400, "ዳንኤ� ያዕቆብ (Dan""iel
Yacob)" <dyacob@...> wrote:

> OpenOffice and Aspell do use the "Double Metaphone" algorithm in some
> form, a descendant of Soundex.

Thanks! Good to know.

Btw, is your name in Hebrew, first? Opera does rather well with other
writing systems, but e-mail names aren't great.

Regards,

--
Nicholas Bodley /*|*\ Waltham, Mass. (Not "MA")
The curious hermit -- autodidact and polymath
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