On 20 May 2005 04:09:26 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick TJ McPhee) wrote: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >% None of the other approaches make the mistake of preserving the first >% letter -- this alone is almost enough reason for jettisoning soundex. > >Metaphone does, at least in the case of Aaron and Erin.
You're quite correct; moreover NYSIIS does that too. Dunno what came over me, must be gamma rays or something :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list