> I will echo the opinion of others in this and say that in my experience fuzzy matching based on string distance metrics is a better approach in most cases I

> I will echo the opinion of others in this and say that in my experience fuzzy matching based on string distance metrics is a better approach in most cases I can think of. Most likely, but keep in mind that one of the design goals of Soundex was that it be easy for a human to work out and that it be indexable. It was developed for the US Census at the start of the 20th century, after all…