Hi,

I have been asked if we can search a table for alternate names of people; such as Bob instead of Robert or Peg instead of Margaret, etc.

I have hunted around and found terms such as Dimunitive, Hypocoristic, Content Equivalent and Keyword Substitution...but none of them have helped by providing code to search the table of names.

I've also looked at phonetics but obviously they aren't going to return alias names.

Has anyone ever seen or done this? I would appreciate any help in how to approach or solve this issue.

Thanks in advance,
Steven