This particular problem, of matching misspelled immigrant surnames was the reason for development of phonetic matching algorithms. See https://stevemorse.org/phonetics/bmpm2.htm
Western slavic languages still use a version of the 'Close unrounded central vowel' implicitly in pronounciation, even though it is not represented in writing. An example of this would be words in Romanian (which has a…
> I'm not sure whether Srp is similar. The Serbian-language word for the Serbian language itself is Srpski (српски), but srp is also Slavic for “sickle”... Native speaker here, these are in fact two different words,…
Link to a 99pi podcast episode about this secret mall apartmen in case anyone is interested in the story. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-accidental-room/
This particular problem, of matching misspelled immigrant surnames was the reason for development of phonetic matching algorithms. See https://stevemorse.org/phonetics/bmpm2.htm
Western slavic languages still use a version of the 'Close unrounded central vowel' implicitly in pronounciation, even though it is not represented in writing. An example of this would be words in Romanian (which has a…
> I'm not sure whether Srp is similar. The Serbian-language word for the Serbian language itself is Srpski (српски), but srp is also Slavic for “sickle”... Native speaker here, these are in fact two different words,…
Link to a 99pi podcast episode about this secret mall apartmen in case anyone is interested in the story. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-accidental-room/