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Bass
April 27, 2008, 9:54 pm
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The perfect guitar playing, choir singing, fresh water….bass.

I noticed a couple of weeks ago that I was getting quite a few hits on my blog because of the word “bass”.

Bass is a funny word. HA!

No, seriously.

A quick search on the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, one finds that there are 25 different entries for the word bass.

Pronunciations:
\ˈbas\ \ˈbās\
Function: noun, adjective

Inflected Form(s): plural bass or bass·es
Etymology:
Middle English base, bærs, from Old English bærs; akin to Old High German bersich perch;
Middle English bas base
: any of numerous edible marine or freshwater bony fishes (especially families Centrarchidae, Serranidae, and Percichthyidae of the order Perciformes); deep or grave in tone, of low pitch, relating to or having the range or part of a bass, the lowest voice part in a 4-part chorus; a coarse tough fiber from palms

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