[PW] Re: "sounds like" searching

[Bob Boyce]

  I suggest calling a pharmacist or county health department, nursing school, etc.--some people who deal with medications, and ask them.

Bob Boyce
Reference Department, Lincoln NE City Libraries
r.boyce at LincolnLibraries.org

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Michelle Hawk" <refdesk at lclibs.org>
Reply-To: list at project-wombat.org
Date:  Sat, 2 Sep 2006 11:03:14 -0400

Does anyone know of a way to find a word (in this case, a medication),
when the patron only knows what the word sounds like, but really doesn't
have any idea of how it's really spelled? I've Googled the few spelling
variations I can think of, but can't find anything. Any help would be
appreciated.

~Michelle

 

 

Michelle Hawk

Head of Reference

Lebanon Community Library

125 North 7th Street

Lebanon, PA 17046

717-273-7624 x3

refdesk at lclibs.org

 

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