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etymology - What caused bell peppers to be called capsicums in some . . . 1707 H Sloane Voy Islands I 241 Bell Pepper The fruit is large somewhat shaped like a bell ("pepper, n " OED Online Oxford University Press, June 2016 Web 24 August 2016 Sense 3 ) Capsicum, on the other hand, is first attested as a botanical term for the plant in 1664, and as a term for the plant's fruit in 1725 ("capsicum, n "
single word requests - Interjection for the sound of a bell - English . . . bell – the sound that a bell makes when it rings bong – a long deep sound that a bell makes chime – a ringing sound made by a bell, or by a clock with a bell inside it ding – the short sound that a bell makes ding-dong – the sound that a bell makes jingle – the sound that small metal objects make when they hit each other
colloquialisms - Words are not sparrows; once they have flown they . . . The bell, once rung, cannot be unrung or You cannot unring the bell Google books traces "cannot be unrung" to 1924: what is learned or suspected outside of court may have some influence on the judicial decision It may be only a subtle or even subconscious influence, but a bell cannot be unrung Adverse claimants have at least some reason
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 (emphasis added): “My transmission is smashed,” the driver, who was bent over by the rear of his truck, said “Obscene your transmission Go
The door was opened vs The door was open [duplicate] The door was open In this sentence 'open' is an adjective It means 'not closed or blocked up' The sentence has the same structure as 'the boy was smart' or 'the girl is beautiful'
word choice - What Is the Real Name of the #? - English Language . . . 1996 New Scientist 30 Mar 54 3 The term ‘octothorp(e)’ (which MWCD10 dates 1971) was invented for ‘#’, allegedly by Bell Labs engineers when touch-tone telephones were introduced in the mid-1960s ‘Octo-’ means eight, and ‘thorp’ was an Old English word for village: apparently the sign was playfully construed as eight fields
etymology - Origin of using clocked to mean noticed - English . . . The second is based on the origins of 'clock', (OED ~ "Middle English clok(ke , clocke , was either < Middle Dutch clocke (modern Dutch klok ‘bell, clock’), or < Old Northern French cloke , cloque = Central French cloche ‘bell’"), and an alternative use for bell clock that was to have it tied around the necks of cattle to make them
citation - Should I capitalize a persons last name if their name . . . In the case of a pen name (such as bell hooks for example), it seems acceptable to use it as such at the beginning of a sentence ("bell hooks wrote her reflections on liberatory pedagogies ", S Mitchem, Journal of Women and Religion, 1999) It's not the last name however, but the entire name