Clock
I was interested to learn that we owe this one ultimately to the Irish. 1371, clokke, orig. "clock with bells," probably from M.Du. klocke, from M.L. (7c.) clocca "bell," from Celt., probably spread...
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(You might edit again to fix the weird symbol in the middle of d*g and m*l; if you can't get the a-e ligature to come out right, better to just put daeg and mael.)The OED isn't nearly so positive...
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Duden's German etymologie has Glocke from the 6th century from North Africa into Italien. It then spread quickly throughout Europe "Besonders in Irland" (especially in Ireland) where these bells were...
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OK in Opera as well.also interesting that the slang expression "I clocked him one good" recovers the original meaning of "striking." Safire suggests in a recent article that "clean your clock" is...
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(Just discovered I had my browser set to Cyrillic characters. Looks fine now. D'oh!)
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Pilot error. I call it augering in. Glad you figured out what the problem was.Rich
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