Soundex

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  soundex
       
           An {algorithm} for encoding a word so that
          similar sounding words encode the same.  The first letter is
          copied unchanged then subsequent letters are encoded as
          follows:


       
          	bfpv	  -> "1"
          	cgjkqsxzc -> "2"
          	dt	  -> "3"
          	l	  -> "4"
          	mnń	  -> "5"
          	r	  -> "6"
       
          Other characters are ignored and repeated characters are
          encoded as though they were a single character.  Encoding
          stops when the resulting string is four characters long,
          adding trailing "0"s if it is shorter.  For example, "SMITH"
          or "SMYTHE" would both be encoded as "S530".
       
          (1995-01-05)