basque/Basque/bask

[Kim & Rima McKinzey]

>...Well, I'll chime in as the AHD4 pronunciation person. I pronounce bask and
>basque and Basque identically. This is how it was represented in AHD3, and
>there was no indication that this pronunciation should have been edited,
>and it jived with my pronunication, so I left it the same in AHD4.

As the AHD3 pronunciation person,  I've never heard/said it any other
way but ae.

Rima