Because in former times, your auto loan came with a payment booklet and in the booklet was a series of "notes", which were slips of paper that contained pertinent information about your auto loan that aided in the recording of said payment, that you sent in with your check for your loan payment.
A similar term for a loan is a "promissory note" which is a signed debt or IOU.
Note
I guess you would just call that pitch. Theres really no other word for that
The word "note" has a long o sound.
Musical note's
note, memo
Note.
A smaller word inside a big word
short manner
One word that usually means "not short" is tall. The other major antonym is long.
note worthy
anacrusis
The root word of "short" is "short," as it is a basic, primary word and not derived from another word.