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  • 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:
  • 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,
  • What do you call the sound of a bell? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
    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?
  • nouns - Why is the word pepper used for both capsicum (e. g. bell . . .
    The Online Etymology Dictionary states that Latin piper is the source of the English word (as well as “German Pfeffer, Italian pepe, French poivre, Old Church Slavonic pipru, Lithuanian pipiras, Old Irish piobhar, Welsh pybyr, etc ”) It's ultimately from Sanskrit and originally referred to the Old World's Piper genus The New World's Capsicum genus came to be called “pepper” in the
  • Interjection for the sound of a bell - English Language Usage Stack . . .
    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
  • etymology - What caused bell peppers to be called capsicums in some . . .
    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 - Is there a term for the sound of a bicycle bell . . .
    A bicycle bell is a percussive signaling instrument mounted on a bicycle for warning pedestrians and other cyclists Wikipedia says that a bicycle bell produces a "ding-ding" sound, and so, since I'm not sure that "ding-ding" sound is the better choice currently in use, I wonder whether there is a single term with which one can more properly
  • 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)
  • Etymology of the verb lint in the context of programming where it . . .
    The usage of “lint” in computing is derived by analogy from the more common and traditional usage of lint referring to clothing, as suggested below: Stephen C Johnson, a computer scientist at Bell Labs, came up with the term "lint" in 1978 while debugging the yacc grammar he was writing for C and dealing with portability issues stemming from porting Unix to a 32-bit machine The term was
  • meaning - What is ‘a bell-covered hat’? - English Language Usage . . .
    The text says it is a bell-covered hat, but does not mention that it is in the shape of a jester, or has horns to it, so I would take that it meant a strange hat, which is encrusted with bells





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