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Constitutional Characters. A systematic set of names for Major and Minor pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Peter Aronson wrote on Wed, Dec 10, 2003 09:17 PM UTC:
Or better yet. <p> If we were to go back to Greek, the word part for side is <i>pleur</i>- or <i>pleuro</i>-, the word part for middle is <i>mes</i>- or <i>meso</i>- which would give us <i>diamesopleurol</i> to mean 'through the middle of sides'. This would be even more obscure.