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Based off of whose pronounciation?

• danso 7y ago
  It's the first sentence of the article: > Soundex is a phonetic algorithm for indexing names by sound, as pronounced in English.
  • TylerE 7y ago
    Yes, but whose pronunciation? Barbara, for instance, can be pronounced with two syllables or three.
    • aidenn0 7y ago
      It works by favoring false positives over false negatives. In the specific case of Barbara, it doesn't matter how many syllables, because non-initial vowels are ignored.
  • knolax 7y ago
    You do realize that there are multiple dialects of English[0], some of which differ wildly from the common ones. So again, whose pronounciation? [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dialects_of_English https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dialects_of_English