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Goodbye Ibis[Subject Thread] [Add Response]
Charles Gilman wrote on Fri, May 11, 2012 05:35 AM UTC:
Looking into Wyvern seem to have done the trick. At first it looked like a distraction from what had been my priority of getting Runout replaced by something closer in meaning, rather than just ib sound, to Dunnart, but it turns out to help. After some though I devised a way of swapping round the remainder-1 pieces whose radial compounds take Ne-, Ru-, Su-, and Wy- at the start, with one knock-on effect for a remainder-2 piece. What I have come up with is as follows:
10:7		Runaway/Yell replace Wyvern/Yale
17:3		Rumel/Yump replace Wymel/Yump
8:3:2		Sugarglider/Gusher replace Runout/Renewer
8:7:6		Yawanur/Lley replace Nrevyw/Elay
R61 pure hex	Entrap/Prison replace Suntrap/Tan
Now Runaway is admittedly very similar in look and sound to Runway (a Bent piece), but very different in literal meaning, and there are plenty of advantages to counterbalance this. Getting rid of Suntrap and its Rook compound, Sunshal, lessens the crowded collection of pieces starting with Sun- both in the Sun directions (Wazir+Cross+Saltire) and the Sunhat and Sunshade. The names Nreshal, Nrevyw, and Wyvshal looked clumsy and were hard to pronounce. Unless there's any major objection or better idea I'll go ahead with it.