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...ther a Rails/Ferret based restful dictionary. So I finally got a chance to get started today so the first thing I wanted to do was implement a metaphone analyzer and filter. Some links for more info on the metaphone algorithms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Metaphone The jist of it is that it breaks words down into its phonetic parts. For example, the word ''cool'' and ''kewl'' both become ''KL'' in the double-metaphone algorithm. Indexing dictionary words in this manner is almost essential so that users can f...