[Moo] Axe

[Dave Montuori]

> I would love to quote you on that.  The Golden Dolphin Herald said I
> couldn't use different words for the same thing and have it pass when we
> sat down and talked at Fall University.  She knew that we were trying to
> pass award names when she made that statement.  I might have
> misinterpreted her statement but I was sure she said that it had to be
> something completely different.  Can you give me a link to that ruling?
> Is it on the SCA precedents page?  

You have my permission to quote me on that. It's straight from the Rules 
for Submissions, Section V.2 -- I am unaware of any precedent that 
overrules the basic rule in this case.

"a. Difference of Descriptive Elements - A descriptive element is a word 
other than a designator, an article, a preposition, or the name of a 
branch of the Society."

Here's the first important part:

"Two descriptive elements are considered significantly different if they 
differ significantly in both sound and appearance. Descriptive elements 
that are not significantly different are said to be equivalent."

And in the section immediately below that part, the middle paragraph is 
the most important:

"b. Conflict of Names with the Same Number of Elements - Two non-personal 
names with the same number of descriptive elements conflict unless at 
least one of the following conditions is met.

"    i. Change of Elements - Two such names do not conflict if each of 
them contains a descriptive element significantly different from every 
descriptive element in the other.

"    House Saint Mary , Saint Mary Herald , and the College of Sainte 
Marie all conflict with one another because their descriptive elements are 
equivalent; House , Herald , and College of , being designators, are not 
descriptive elements. The House of the Red Dolphin does not conflict with 
the House of the Blue Dolphin or the House of the Red Lion . The Order of 
the White Scarf of Ansteorra conflicts with the Order of the White Scarf 
of Atenveldt because Ansteorra and Atenveldt are not descriptive elements 
as defined above in clause 2. a."

Evan