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I have recently been extending the number of compounds of two oblique
pieces in my Man and Beast series, and am wondering how good some of the
endings are. Apart from -u for a compound of duals and -an for the
forward-only equivalents my current ending sets are -elle/-on/-or/-ace
(fixed by the standard Gazelle and Bison), -ut/-in/-et/-al,
-en/-ure/-ar/-ill, -ir/-um/-ede/-ave, -at/-ess/-up/-ad, -i/-ant/-o/-age,
-ie/-and/-ulge/-est, -id/-ot/-ing/-y, -us/-ive/-ast/-ist, and the two
one-offs -er/-ock and -ol/-ic. Both -ede and -ol seem to have a very
limited range of words ending in them and have so far been used only for
Helm+Quintet=Stampede, Propounder+Opossum=Protocol, and
Genome+Gerbil=Genepool. I would therefore welcome any ideas for replacing
these with more promising endings.