[NR] NORTHERN REGIONAL NAMING POLL

[Marc Carlson]

In that case, I move we start over and clear thhe old list.  People know what sorts of names they are interested in.  This is the end of June, how about the end of October, we get the local heralds to submit the new list of names to the web list, and we work from that.  Give it three months, and then we take an informal poll to reduce the names to a workable number.  If after November there are no more workable names, we return to the top names on this list.

Marc/Diarmaid

Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:54:05 -0500
From: ulfie at cox.net
To: northern at lists.ansteorra.org
Subject: Re: [NR] NORTHERN REGIONAL NAMING POLL

That is a brilliant idea.  I would suggest getting the branch herald
from each group to get together a volunteer list of people with
experience in this type of research and co-ordinating through the
regional herald.
 
Why *experience*, some may ask?  For the same reason you would not want
the Crown to be forever after dressed in robes of state designed by
people who volunteer after making one T-tunic and watching a bunch of
Xena. While there have been a few queens *I* think would ... well, never
mind that.
 
The point - you don't take the love of your life to an amateur.  You
seek professional help if they mean so much to you.
 
Ulf
 
On 06/28/2011 02:50 PM, Master Finnacan wrote:
> This was extremely informative and I'm thankful for the time you took to write this. 
> I'll give Baron Cassius some credit, though - one person researching and documentating a name for personal submission is far easier and simple than asking hundreds of people for their feedback, polling, etc, especially since a lot of the names don't pass heraldic muster, despite a majority having some research.
> 
> I'm wondering if concepts like...
> 
> Plains
> Open
> Meadow
> Field
> Horse
> Hawk
> Grass
> Clay
> Dust
> Dry
> ...etc, should be given to a group of heraldic volunteers so that they could come to us with a list of names that they have researched, checked for conflict and spelling.
> Then instead of voting on a small group of names only to have them rejected, we could go in knowing that our top choices are viable.
> 
> we might also include a list of name elements we like, stuff like... 
> lund/land,
> mearc/marc/march,
> gard/geard,
> wold/woede/wood, 
> stuff like that, or merely state a preference for a certain language, like Latin, French, German, Norse, Old English/Saxon, Irish/Scots, Russian, Italian, Spanish, etc...

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