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Charles Gilman wrote on Sat, Nov 24, 2012 04:01 AM EST:
You may remember that Irregular was once a piece name to go with Auxiliary, but dropped out as it was the dual to the piece which I had named Ringaui, an accidental coinage of my own, and when I corrected the latter name both pieces got renamed together. It occurred to me that by renaming the 7:6:4 leaper I could use Auxiliary and Irregular for the Tetrahedral duals of the 9:7:4 and 11:4:3 leapers, especially as Auxiliary never had much connection to the 8:6:1 Wacam, the other specifically cubic root-101 leaper. It would also be an ongoing SOLL-reducing - and thus piece-strengthening - for this pair of names, and their reference to warriors who were outsiders to regular warfare would also especially suit an exotic geometry.

This would, however, require a new name for the existing Auxiliary. First I wondered about a name ending with -am - c.f. Dancer to go with Rotcer, and Entrap to go with Nosrap - but the only one that I could think of was the rather short Exam. Then I wondered about Examiner, which combines the -am of Wacam with the -er common to much of the Feeble Fringe, but this name was already in use. It was, however, not especially suited to the piece using it, the Tuskrider+Key compound, and you will notice that I have therefore renamed Tuskrider+Key Gearwheel as a better fit, as it were, to the theme of teeth for enhanced Tuskriders.

So the plan is now to go for Examiner for the 7:6:4 leaper, Hipster for the 9:8:1's dual, Auxiliary for the 9:7:4's dual, and Irregular for the 11:4:3's dual. I will need to decide on corresponding names for FO pieces, but those should be devised by next weekend.