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How resilient is this type of encoding? i.e. if I pronounce this to someone over the phone, they may write down the phonetics incorrectly or with a different take on the spelling.

What happens if they do that?

I see a lot of names depending on consonant-E and consonant-A pairs, but in the English language how you pronounce those sounds can wind up being very similar dependent on context.




Yes, I absolutely agree. Several of the addresses I encoded would be easy to mistake via voice which is why I thought the "Pine Hill" example very poor.




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