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mbembe Frets: 1840
Why is bass pronounced like bace and not bass which rhymes with lass?
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  • Because they are different things with different etymology. 
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  • tone1tone1 Frets: 5112
    I like mine with a squeeze of lemon..... B)
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  • Bass is a contraction of the Italian basso.

    We Brits then deliberately mispronounce all foreign words to annoy the French.


    tone1 said:
    I like mine with a squeeze of lemon..... B)
    So did Robert Plant. 
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  • BorkBork Frets: 252
    Bass is pronounced like lass when it comes to fish and beer...

    [This space for rent]

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  • mbembe Frets: 1840
    Here, for the avoidance of all doubt...

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  • How low can you go?
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  • DLMDLM Frets: 2513
    The bace is a hybrid cello/bass instrument.

    Try clicking this link and see if it gives you a Bona:

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  • FunkfingersFunkfingers Frets: 14323
    mbe said:
    Why is bass pronounced like bace and not bass which rhymes with lass?
    Otherwise, the name of the character in the film Quadraphenia played by Sting would have to be changed from Ace Face to Ass Face. :grin:
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  • merlinmerlin Frets: 6597
    edited November 2021
    Arse Farce. It is Sting after all
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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 71959
    Sting in Quadrophenia is like one of those 'time traveller' photos where someone dressed in an apparently improbably modern style is in the background of a historic picture, where that style of dress shouldn't exist.

    A little bit of 1979 in what is otherwise a decent representation of 1964.

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  • DLM said:
    The bace is a hybrid cello/bass instrument.

    Try clicking this link and see if it gives you a Bona:

    What an awesome dude, he really walks all over that fretboard. Unusual instrument all I could see was a cello like thing at first then you look at the headstock and it’s like a fender.thanks for sharing 
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