On Sep 14, 2006, at 5:07 PM, Garrett Fitzgerald wrote:
Or, you could send it to a mail house *cough cough* that has dedicated
merge-purge software to find dups...
Ahem, ahem -- I suppose, but (as usual) I am oversimplifying the task
at hand (so as not to bore y'all with minutia). So, ahem, the other
part of the story is an ongoing need that will run interactively.
(Same answer to Virgil). Thanks both.
I found a bunch of given/nickname lists on the Wikipedia and a couple
of genealogy sites. Made a quick conversion program and ended up with
2,038 unique given/nick name pairs. Because of the genealogy sites,
some of the pairs are quite quaint:
- Algernon/Algy
- Alphinias/Alphus
Others are pretty, um, unusual (at least to my frame of reference):
- Araminta/Ruminta
- Carthaette/Etty
And some that make my head hurt:
- Casper/Jasper
- Zadock/Melchizedek
But it achieved my goal of getting the most typical ones, and I can
clean it up and add to it over time.
Ken
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