For the last year or so I have been catching most episodes of B.B.C. Radio 4's Tweet of the Day, a series of two-minute programmes each about a bird found in Britain and its sonhgs. For this reason bird nasmes have been on my mind and I have come up with three possible bird-based names for pieces. They are Curlew for Albatranker+Curatfiler, Oxpecker for Bitteranker+Oxfiler, and Nuthatch for Rook+Kangaroo. The first two combine the birdiness of the -ranker component with similarity in name to the -filer one, while the last is from the idea of transforming the Squirrel's Dabbaba component - henec the refernce to nuts - from proto-Rook to modern Rook - which is of course itself a bird name.
There are other pieces complementing these, and I have gone for non-board names for these. For Oxranker+Bittefiler I suggest the long-unused Ibex, and for Curatranker+Albatfiler Almoner, meaning a giver of charity often for religious motives. I am not sure about Bishop+Carpenter. i wondered about Nutter, a slang term for a mad person, in reference to the Bishop as Fool, but wondered whether some people might consider this an offensive piece name. If anyone can suggest something better, ideally connected with squirrels in some way (it tansforms the Squirrel's Elephant component from proto-Bishop to modern Bishop) for this piece I would be grateful.
There are other pieces complementing these, and I have gone for non-board names for these. For Oxranker+Bittefiler I suggest the long-unused Ibex, and for Curatranker+Albatfiler Almoner, meaning a giver of charity often for religious motives. I am not sure about Bishop+Carpenter. i wondered about Nutter, a slang term for a mad person, in reference to the Bishop as Fool, but wondered whether some people might consider this an offensive piece name. If anyone can suggest something better, ideally connected with squirrels in some way (it tansforms the Squirrel's Elephant component from proto-Bishop to modern Bishop) for this piece I would be grateful.