Talk:Mura (disambiguation)

mura - Japanese term for 'unevenness in operations' from Jim Womack, Chairman and CEO of Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) 'a root causes of muda in many organizations' and 'more variation in activities than called for by customer behavior'

I'm very confused after checking this disambig. page. One page says that "mura" translates as "village", the other says it translates to "inconsistency". Is it both? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.68.243.253 (talk) 02:47, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
 * It could, in theory, be both if it's a synonym. --Call me Bubba (talk) 02:50, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
 * This was my thinking (OP here), that it could be some sort of homophone or case of polysemy. I know very little about Japanese and couldn't get a hold of a friend who minored in it, but I was able to piece together some evidence that "village" and "irregularity" share the same katakana [むら], but have different kanji. The best legitimate source I found was at this Japanese-English dictionary. Cheers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.68.243.253 (talk) 19:12, 19 December 2008 (UTC)