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  • single word requests - Interjection for the sound of a bell - English . . .
    That is an interesting question in its own right - what part of speech is "boom!"? If a human would exclaim it, I believe it would be an interjection If a bell produces the sound, is it still an interjection? What I meant by the question is that I wasn't looking for a noun ("a ringing") or verb ("to ring") The noun, verb and interjection (?) could all be said to be onomatopoetic, as far as I
  • idioms - For whom the bell tolls - origin of ask not instead of . . .
    "Ask not for whom the bell tolls" is a popular cliche My understanding is that it comes from John Donne's Meditation XVII (1623) But in Donne's poem, the line is any man's death diminishes me,
  • etymology - What is the origin of rings a bell? - English Language . . .
    For example, he struck a bell when the dogs were fed If the bell was sounded in close association with their meal, the dogs learnt to associate the sound of the bell with food After a while, at the mere sound of the bell, they responded by drooling Another possible origin is the one this page advocates:
  • A figure of speech to illustrate the irreversibility of an action
    Personally I like "You can't unring that bell" as deadrat mentioned above The phrase refers to the fact that you can't un-hear a bell that has been rung There's a nice essay about its history here: Unring the Bell (impossibility of taking back a statement or action)
  • Obscene yourself (literally) in Hemingways For Whom The Bell Tolls
    I am reading Hemingway's "For Whom The Bell Tolls" (an edition from 1960) Throughout the book, strong words and obscenities are replaced literally by the term "obscenity" or similar For example (
  • What caused bell peppers to be called capsicums in some countries?
    A person working in an Indian supermarket was shocked when I told her it's called Bell Pepper in the US, UK, Canada and Ireland I had to pull out Wikipedia to convince her it was true (Probably because she associated pepper with the spice ) What is the historical etymological explanation for this divergence in names between countries?
  • single word requests - What do you call the sound of a bell? - English . . .
    If you wanted to describe the sound of a small brass bell that you can hold in your hand (this is an example image of what I mean - what word would you use? Brrring? Bling?
  • why do some people call green peppers mangoes?
    It appears that: “When mangoes were first imported to the American colonies in the 17th century, they had to be pickled due to lack of refrigeration Other fruits were also pickled and came to be called ‘mangoes’, especially bell peppers, and by the 18th century, the word ‘mango’ became a verb meaning “to pickle ’” green peppers " mangoes "


















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