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The Standards for Evaluation of Names and Armory:The Rules for Submissionsand does not delay the change in status.As discussed in GP.3.B, we only allow non-personal names from locations beyond Europe when the entityin question could have traveled to Europe. As branches could not have so traveled, designators for branchnames may only be in languages used in medieval and Renaissance Europe.2. Order and Award Designators: The designators for order names must follow a documented pattern formedieval order names. The standard designators are Order and Award. Any pattern suitable for one suchdesignator is suitable for the other. These designators may take the lingua Anglica form, using the formsabove regardless of the language of the substantive phrase. Alternately, they may take the language of thesubstantive element. A list of some translations of these designators is listed in Appendix E. In general,designators which are used for household and association names cannot be used for orders and awards.For example, either Order of the Levrier or Ordre du Levrier is registerable for the meaning 'order of thehound', but Order du Levrier and Ordre of the Levrier are not; in each one, the preposition and article donot match the language of the designator.For example, Order of the Levrier is registerable as an order name, but not as a household name. Similarly,Company of the Levrier is registerable as a household name, but not as an award or order name.3. Household and Association Names: The designators for household names must be documented as a formdescribing a group of people in a particular culture. It must be compatible with the substantive element interms of content and style. There is no standard designator which is considered compatible with all types ofnames for groups of people.Several kinds of groups of people have served as models for household names. They include a noblehousehold, a military unit, a guild, a group of people associated with an inn or tenement house, a universityor school (noting that the word college is reserved for branches), clans, and an organized group ofmusicians or actors. Designators may be registered in the original language or may take the lingua Anglicaform. Suitable substantive elements (like simple descriptions) may take the lingua Anglica form as well. Ingeneral, designators which are used within the SCA for orders and awards cannot be used for household andassociation names, even if they were so used in period.For example, either Compagnia di Santa Lucia or Company of Santa Lucia is registerable for the meaning'company of Saint Lucia, but Company di Santa Lucia and Compagnia of Santa Lucia are not; in each one,the preposition and article do not match the language of the designator.For example, Compagnia di Santa Lucia is registerable as a household name, but not as an order name.Similarly, Order of Santa Lucia is registerable as an award or order name, but not a household name.4. Heraldic Titles: The designators for heraldic titles must follow a documented pattern for heraldic titles.The standard terms for heraldic titles for kingdoms and local branches are Herald and Pursuivant. Anypattern suitable for one such designator is suitable for the other. These designators may take the linguaAnglica form, using the forms above regardless of the language of the substantive phrase, or they may takethe language of the substantive element. The designator Principal Herald is restricted to the chief herald ofa kingdom. The designator King/Queen/Sovereign of Arms is restricted to the Laurel office. In general,changes of designator, for example from pursuivant to herald, do not need to be submitted to the Laureloffice; if submitted, they are administrative actions, which do not require fees.For example, a heraldic title based on the German placename Funffprun could be Funffprun Herold orFunffprun Herald, as Herold is found as a German term for heralds, but it could not be Funffprun Herault,as Herault is a French term for heralds.Standards for Evaluation of Names and Armory – April 29, 2012 - Page 23 of 73
The Standards for Evaluation of Names and Armory:The Rules for SubmissionsAs discussed in GP.3.B, we do not register heraldic titles in languages from cultures that did not useheraldic titles. This applies to both the designator and the substantive elements of such heraldic titles.C. Standards for Designators and Substantive Elements: To be registerable, those designators whose form isnot fixed in NPN.1.B above (including those with modifiers, such as Noble Order) must meet the standardslaid out below. All substantive elements must also meet the standards laid out below.1. Single Time and Place: A substantive element must follow the rules of grammar and structure for a singletime and place. It may not mix languages unless that mixing of languages within a name phrase is attested.For example, the attested English heraldic title Rougecrosse Pursuivant is partially French and partiallyEnglish, but this does not necessarily mean that all French and English words may be so combined.2. Sources of Designators and Substantive Elements: We allow registerable name phrases to be created in avariety of ways. A designator is a name phrase. A substantive element is a name phrase. Thosedesignators that are discussed in NPN.1.B above do not need to be justified under the terms of this section.a. Attested Name Phrases: Name phrases may be attested to period as a complete name phrase. A singleexample of an attested name phrase clearly dated to period is sufficient to demonstrate its use. Minorspelling variants are allowed when those spelling variants can be demonstrated to be compatible with thespelling conventions of the time and place of the attested name.For example, in Renaissance Scots, the letters i and y are regularly interchangeable. So, a name attestedas Armyltoun could also be registered as Armiltoun. The letters k and q, on the other hand, are notinterchangeable in Renaissance Scots. So, a name attested as Kintyre does not justify the spellingQintyre.b. Constructed Name Phrases: Name phrases may be constructed from attested period name elements.This requires demonstrating that the combination follows a period pattern. We generally require at leastthree examples to consider something a pattern. This is because a single name phrase can appear tofollow a pattern that it does not actually follow.For example, the German placename element –katz does not derive from the name of the animal but fromthe name of a river. Thus, this element cannot be combined with an element that is incompatible with ariver name.All of the elements and patterns for a constructed name phrase must come from a single time and place.We do not allow constructed name phrases that are created by using patterns from one time and placewith elements from another time and place. Some examples of constructed names are:1. New Placenames Constructed from Attested Elements: New placenames can be constructed fromattested placename elements following an attested pattern.For example, the attested English place names Oxford, Swinford and Hartford indicate a pattern ofkinds of large hooved animals with -ford. Therefore, this pattern would support a similar name likeSheepford. This pattern would not, however, support constructing Bookford or Duckford, since neitherbooks nor ducks are large hooved animals.For example, there is a pattern of adding family names to existing placenames in English. Followingthis pattern, the attested family name Peverel can be added to the attested placename Bercroft toconstruct the compound placename Bercroft Peverel.Standards for Evaluation of Names and Armory – April 29, 2012 - Page 24 of 73
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