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Help[Facts] Re: Names with several origins?
in reply to a message by Sabertooth
You are right, using pronounciations instead of spellings is another approach, which may have advantages.
But pronounciations are so much more "slippery" than spellings, they vary from language to language and sometimes even from region to region within the same language.
And there are other problems:
Of course it would be nice to have a number of pronounciations for each name of BtN's database, ideally in IPA because that's a standard, and then search functions that list names with the same pronounciation, regardless of spelling. But just think of the amount of work needed to research and enter all that data...
But pronounciations are so much more "slippery" than spellings, they vary from language to language and sometimes even from region to region within the same language.
And there are other problems:
Of course it would be nice to have a number of pronounciations for each name of BtN's database, ideally in IPA because that's a standard, and then search functions that list names with the same pronounciation, regardless of spelling. But just think of the amount of work needed to research and enter all that data...
This message was edited 1/2/2015, 9:30 AM
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