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Thread #4140   Message #22112
Posted By: Fergus
24-Feb-98 - 06:43 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Paddle me own canoe? / Paddle Your Own..
Subject: RE: Spellings
Ach, the troubles caused by different spellings of words when the search engine is looking for exact matches! I couldn't find 'Bold O'Donahue' either, until I did a search for 'Blarney'. Donoghue, Donohue, Donaghue...

It would be lovely to have some kind of phonetic matching built into the search engine... I wonder if there's such an engine knocking around somewhere that the site could appropriate.

Cheers, Wolfgang, for pointing me to Lanigan anyway (Lannigan... Lanegan...) and to everyone else...

Fergus

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