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| Musical scales come in many varieties, but as long as they're ascending and periodic they can be broken down into a finite list of steps stacked on top on each other.
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| Now that abstract scale display is coming to Scale Workshop we need a system for indicating the sizes of steps that is both human readable and machine executable.
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| Below is a list of adjectives related to size ordered simulteneously in ascending ASCII order and descending size order.
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| * '''B'''iggest
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| * '''C'''olossal
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| * '''E'''normous
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| * '''G'''igantic
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| * '''H'''uge
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| * '''L'''arge
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| * '''M'''edium
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| * '''N'''ormal
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| * '''O'''rdinary
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| * '''n'''arrow
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| * '''m'''inute
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| * '''n'''egligible
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| * '''p'''etite
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| * '''s'''mall
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| * '''t'''iny
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| * '''u'''nnoticeable
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| * '''z'''ilch
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| The bolded first letter is intended as a shorthand for step patterns like L, M and s in LLsLLLs for Ionian or LMLsLsLMLs for Blackdye Grave Dorian.
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| The '''z'''ilch step is reserved for steps of zero size i.e. repeated notes in the scale.
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