Adding words to SQL Server Full Text Stemmer

I've dug around for a few hours now and cannot find an option to do this. What I would like to do is to add words to the stemmer used by Full Text in SQL Server. I work for an agency that would like to search on variations of names. In other words, if an officer enters the name of "Bill" I would also get a hit on "Will" or "William". Anyone know if this is possible?

I did look at implementing a custom IStemmable interface but that seems a bit of an overblow solution to this problem. Does anyone know of an easier way or have an off the shelf solution that will do this?

Thanks...

From stackoverflow

• In SQL Server 2K5 or 2K8 it is called the "Thesaurus". Well doced in MSDN etc

  It handles things like these

      <expansion>
          <sub>Internet Explorer</sub>
          <sub>IE</sub>
          <sub>IE5</sub>
      </expansion>
      <replacement>
          <pat>NT5</pat>
          <pat>W2K</pat>
          <sub>Windows 2000</sub>
      </replacement>
      <expansion>
          <sub>run</sub>
          <sub>jog</sub>
      </expansion>
  

  Ishmael : Read the docs carefully. There is lots of places to go wrong here. First the file must be UCS2 (UTF-16). Also note that the file is parsed at index time, not run time. It is also often unclear which file is used by your install.

• Sigh....

  Thanks. One of those times I was definitely trying to make it more difficult then it needed to be. I think I found stemmer early on and kept using it in my searches.

  Thanks again.