vowel counts

["Garrett Jones" <alkaline@bigfoot.com>]

I wrote a short perl script to count the vowels in the gismu in the
official word list and it came up with this count:

ending i = 448
ending a = 335
ending u = 251
ending e = 158
ending o = 150

midvowel a = 510
midvowel i = 353
midvowel u = 201
midvowel e = 186
midvowel o = 92

total a = 845
total i = 801
total u = 452
total e = 344
total o = 242

'a' and 'i' win by a fair margin over the others... i wonder why that
is.