What comes to me is just an opinion, not a mistake. In your Cambridge dictionary, the /bs does appear. This seems especially likely since on your website you provided for the Cambridge Dictionary. But not under the definition of the fish. How and why was this misstep made come to mind?

But one very homograph may have been confused

for another bass as in in the fish, and bass as opposed to treble to describe tonal pitch are homographs, but not homophons. The /bes/ pronunciation corresponds to the tonal definition of the word, rather than the fish’s name. “Unfortunately, not all words are equally correct in the English translation. What is the name of the fish that is /bs/, as shown in the entries for sea bass shown in Combra Collies English Dictionary–Complete and Unabridged 12th edition, The American Heritage Dictionary 5th Edition and Random House Webster’s College Dictionary (2010) seen on The Free Dictionary By Farlex. Is this distinction nearly universal?

If you’re looking at the phonedials at the keyboards and it’s written on the radio dial reference for the bass guitar for example, you’ll quickly find whether the speaker is singing tonal, or the string relates to this instrument from the pickup. Confusing the two pronunciations is a reasonable, since except a corresponding radio dial reference is somewhat rare.

Something that makes it especially confusing is that it seems as if the /bes/ pronunciation would make much more sense in English since it refers to the smaller tones at the base of the sound range. In An American Dictionary of the English Language (A.A.E.D.E. ) (2001) (To 1.12 A.D.E.P.) What is the difference between BASS and the Italian basso?

This word is thus written in imitation of the Italian basso, which is the Spanish Eng. base, low I still have the pronunciation of base and plural bases, a gross error that should be corrected the word being English word base. Note : The word pronunciation used in pronunciation is the English word base.

I am not quite sure how to compare pronunciation frequency and especially not for comparing the frequency of mistakes but if the mistake itself is relatively rare it is probably because this is one of the most common examples of a homograph with different pronunciations used. Merriam-Webster uses this example in their definition of Heteronym :

one of two or more homographs (such as a bass voice and bass fish) that differ in pronunciation and meaning The

Macmillan Dictionary for Children (2007) notes that the two are homographs under the Bass entries. I could list dozens of examples, but I am sure you get the point.

Megaman 8 : A particularly notable example of this error is found in D&D. For over two hours straight, players of previous games will see the same error. In his game, Bass is pronounced like the name of the fish, despite a musical naming theme suggesting that his name was the tonal definition, rather than the fishy one. In the original japanese the character’s name, which is Forte, is a musical reference and other important robots in the Megaman series follow suit, including Rock (Megaman’s japanese name), his sister Roll (referring to the Rock and Roll genre of music), his brother Blues, a bird named Beat and, most persuasively, Bass’ own robotic pet. In the fantasy genre of Megaman, there are arguments and jokes being made regarding the character’s name.

Who is responsible for Pronunciation Entries?

In consideration of the similarity between spellings, it seems probable to me that the lexicographer responsible for the pronunciation erroneously copied the pronunciation from its tonal sense to the aquatic sea life, either because he did not realize the two pronunciations were different, or because he did not pay close enough attention to what entry he was using as a source for the pronunciation.

Considering that many of the characters in pronunciation keys are difficult to type, since they are relatively rare characters, which don’t have corresponding keys on the keyboard. Is there any way to do this in Google?