Sunday, May 10, 2015

Word-building: ACHED and BACHED

We all know that ACHED is the past-tense of ACHE.

Add a B to the front of ACHED and you get BACHED.

BACHED means "to live as a batchelor.

So we've got "to BACH",  "BACHING it", and "he BACHES".

A BACHELOR is an unmarried man.

Based on the pronunciation of BACHELOR, I've always assumed that BACH,  BACHING and BACHES are pronounced with a flat "a" sound and a "t" (so it sounds like "batch, batching, and batches).

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