The clock in my bathroom died, and I need a new one. I don't wear a watch, so I compensate by having a clock in every room of the house. I didn't like the Selection by Target, so I went to the internet.
I've typed "clocks" so many times now that it is losing all meaning. The more I think about it, the weirder the word is. Where did it come from? Why doesn't it sound like the word "time." Why is it a verb? Did someone hit someone with a clock and it came from there, or was the verb an onamonapeia and the object was named after the sound it made upon contact?
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Hmm...I'm almost comforted by the general ignorance. At least the reason I don't know is because no one really knows!
I'm thinking about a weather clock. That should be funny for the bathroom. I kind of like the solar system clock, but it's in the wrong colors. There is also one with Elvis on it. I'm wondering how long I will think that is funny.
I love this one, but I don't think it's going to happen.
There was a bright smiley face one. That should keep me awake in the morning.
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ohh, I like that solar system clock. It doesn't go with anything in my house, but I still like it.
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I love clocks too! There are two clocks in every room in my house (and I wonder at times if I have some form of OCD, because I have to always be able to see one of them).
Vana, I thought you might have been talking about this clock until I saw your link.
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But if clock is linked to the "tick tick" sound, how did it get associated with bells, as in "cloche"?
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Perhaps the bell association came first? As in, clock is derived from cloche?
Ah, here we go:
quote:clock Look up clock at Dictionary.com 1371, clokke, orig. "clock with bells," probably from M.Du. klocke, from M.L. (7c.) clocca "bell," from Celt., probably spread by Irish missionaries, ultimately of imitative origin. Replaced O.E. dægmæl, from dæg "day" + mæl "measure, mark." The slang verb sense of "hit, sock" is 1941, originally Australian, probably from earlier slang clock (n.) "face" (1923). O'clock for of the clock is c.1720.
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There are two clocks in every room in my house (and I wonder at times if I have some form of OCD, because I have to always be able to see one of them).
