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On Tuesday, January 15, 2013 15:21:01 Robert LeChevalier wrote:
> mitre should be obvious.  The word "meter" is officially international.
>   The choice of the final "e" was arbitrary, but probably was chosen in
> part to respect the British spelling convention for visual word recognition.

The question is about the place structure, not etymology, of "mitre". It has a 
place that no other measure word has.

Pierre
-- 
loi mintu se ckaji danlu cu jmaji

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