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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?
orthography - Bell crank, bell-crank or bellcrank? - English Language . . . The first form, " bell crank " tells me that we are talking about a crank which turns actuates a bell The second form " bell-crank " tells me that we are talking about bell-shaped crank, or a specialty crank that is only useful for cranking bells, without saying anything of its shape
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:
adjectives - Is calling a gerund in calling bell? - English . . . 2 calling-bell It all boils down to whether "calling bell" means a static door bell or a bell that is actively calling in order to seek attention In the static door bell reading it's a compound noun, hyphenated, consisting of a gerund-participle verb + noun, with a purposive meaning: "bell for calling"
nouns - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Tolling usually refers to one bell being sounded at intervals The carillon referred to by Theresa is something different, where a machine makes the bells play a tune Some church towers have both; a carillon linked to the clock which plays a tune mechanically at certain times of day, and the facility for ringing changes by hand
What does the expression Ring the bell for lemons mean? 2 In "Felix Holt, The Radical", the entire sentence is "I'll ring the bell for lemons and make punch " Given the upper-class nature of the speaker, this suggests that he will ring "the bell" to summon a servant, instruct the servant to bring lemons, and then make a fruit punch (alcoholic, of course) with the lemons