Description
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  This module implements a "sounds like" algorithm developed by Lawrence Philips which he
  published in the June, 2000 issue of C/C++ Users Journal.  Double Metaphone is an improved
  version of Philips' original Metaphone algorithm.

Copyright
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  Copyright 2007, Stephen Lacy <slacy@slacy.com>

  This code is a derivative work from an implementation by Maurice Aubrey
  <maurice@hevanet.com>, and modified to use STL vector and string classes instead of bare
  pointers.

Original Comments by Maurice Aubrey:
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  All rights reserved.

  This code is based heavily on the C++ implementation by
  Lawrence Philips and incorporates several bug fixes courtesy
  of Kevin Atkinson <kevina@users.sourceforge.net>.

  This module is free software; you may redistribute it and/or
  modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
