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From: Timothy Noonan <>
Subject: Soundex SCH
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 99 17:40 CST

From: "Linda K. Schrom" <>

>Actually the Schooler code of S460 coincides exactly with what I found: the
>'CH' is ignored.

>Start with S, ignore C, H, O, O, L=4, ignore E, R=6. Append with zero.

>I had not seen documented that the C is ignored in an SCH combination
>(normally C would be coded 2), but it is.


This is an application of the Soundex rule that two consecutive letters that
code the same way count as one. It makes no difference whether one of the
letter is the first letter of the name. So:

MILLER = M460, not M446
LLOYD = L300, not L430 (i.e., the same as LOYD)
SCHMIDT = S530

and so forth.

Barry C. Noonan
Madison, WI

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