Nickname / diminutive dictionary

Maps each canonical given name to its common nicknames and diminutives. Used to recognise that, e.g., BOB and ROBERT denote the same first name. Some nicknames map to more than one canonical (e.g. AL -> ALBERT, ALEXANDER); two names are treated as equivalent when they share any canonical root, so these ambiguous cases are handled correctly.

Usage

nickname_table()

Value

A named list: each element is a canonical name, its value the character vector of nicknames.