Jay (name)

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Period Forms:[edit | edit source]

  • Name - type of name (eg. English feminine give name), date, source.


Other Potential Sources:[edit | edit source]




Precedents:[edit | edit source]

  • Precedents of the SCA College of Arms - [[1]]
  • Morsulus Heralds Website - [[2]] (to search the LoARs and Precedents)
  • Use the above links to be sure any precedents listed below haven't been superseded by newer precedents.

Registerability:[edit | edit source]

Jay
Bruce Draconarius of Mistholme 1993.06 Jay is documented only as a noun and surname in period; as it's the client's mundane given name, it was submitted under the aegis of Rule II.4. Such submissions, while usually acceptable, can be returned if the name is "obtrusively modern". We find Jay to be obtrusively modern, by virtue of its sound: it sounds like an initial, as in J. P. Morgan, and thus post-period.

We might have considered this acceptable as a "bird name", akin to Robin, had we been shown a common pattern of usage that birds were used as given names in period. But we could think of no examples offhand, save Robin; and one can make a good case that the bird's name derived from the given name (a diminutive of Robert) rather than the reverse. Without period examples, Jay must be considered intrusively modern, and unacceptable even under the Legal Name Allowance. (Jay MacPhunn, June, 1993, pg. 23)

http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/precedents/CompiledNamePrecedents/Compatible.html

Conflict:[edit | edit source]

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Collected Precedents:[edit | edit source]