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Re: [PATCH] ledger lines


From: Han-Wen Nienhuys
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ledger lines
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 16:07:11 +0100

I'm very skeptic of your claims, like you write:

>Tradition is not evidence.

Can you back 

>  just as we use
> bass instead of base.

this up with references ?

Bass is related to the latin for low, whereas base is related to the
Greek verb "bainoo" for step (eg. Xenophon's Anabasis). I'd say there
is no basis (pun intended) for mixing them up, and if anyone did so in
the 1600s, then they're as clueless as the people who mix it up today.

 

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