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Skip to: comments (0); categories; related posts; previous/next postWynand Myburgh may be part of the Mark Liberman/Chris Waigl “base” eggcorn complex. The 28 “base guitar” ghits in Google Books include such sterling refs as Asante & Mazama’s Encyclopedia of Black Studies, and the following passage from Black Ice by C Rowe Myers seems to confirm that in some cases writers are using it in accordance with one of the two clouds of meaning associated with “base”:
I would suggest that the Herald’s usage is up there on cloud 2, which, interestingly, has a different etymology from cloud 1.
Disregarding the Afrikaner music scene for a moment, I wonder if the usage didn’t arise as follows: playing base (ball) -> playing base (guitar).
Trevor @ 15 March 2006 2:37 PM
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