Does anybody know of a public list of name hypocorisms (a contracted form of a given name, such as Tony from Anthony, Rosy for Rosemarie or Vicky from Victoria)?
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You don't mean synonyms but hypocorisms, right? The difference matters: I know a few online synonym dictionaries, but no hypocoristic ones. – CesarGon Nov 20 '09 at 00:20
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it seems I need a list more than I thought – stimms Nov 20 '09 at 00:21
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(what? no html support in comments? :-)) – CesarGon Nov 20 '09 at 00:21
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Okay, I was saying that what you seem to need is a mapping of hypocorisms, not synonyms. Check Wikipedia for the different (can't embed URLs here, apparently). – CesarGon Nov 20 '09 at 00:23
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Yes I suppose it would be a hypocorism, I had no idea there was such a word but: "a contracted form of a given name, such as Tony from Anthony, Rosy for Rosemarie or Vicky from Victoria." – stimms Nov 20 '09 at 00:24
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1@CesarGon: Just put the bare URL. Comment formatting is pretty limited, compared to answers. – Daniel Pryden Nov 20 '09 at 00:29
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it lets you do *italic*, **bold**, and `code` but that's about it. – RCIX Nov 20 '09 at 00:33
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There is a perl module that can do it here: http://metacpan.org/pod/Lingua::EN::Nickname
It seems to base it's results on a simple textfile which can be downloaded here: http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/BRIANL/Lingua-EN-Nickname-1.17/nicknames.txt
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