Why does the word bell have two letter l? The bell, once rung, cannot be unrung. I am reading hemingway's for whom the bell tolls (an edition from 1960). 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. Personally i like you can't unring that bell as deadrat mentioned above.
My understanding is that it comes from john donne's meditation xvii (1623). ' escape from a difficult situation narrowly or by an unexpected intervention.' 'or' should of course be 'and/or'. I had to pull out wikipedia to convince her it. One is the use of double consonants. Google books traces cannot be unrung to 1924:
Why does the word bell have two letter l? The bell, once rung, cannot be unrung. I am reading hemingway's for whom the bell tolls (an edition from 1960). 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. Personally i like you can't unring that.
My understanding is that it comes from john donne's meditation xvii (1623). ' escape from a difficult situation narrowly or by an unexpected intervention.' 'or' should of course be 'and/or'. I had to pull out wikipedia to convince her it. One is the use of double consonants. Google books traces cannot be unrung to 1924:
If a human would exclaim it, i believe it would be an interjection. Throughout the book, strong words and obscenities are replaced literally by the term. What is learned or suspected outside of court may have. For example, he struck a bell when the dogs were fed. Or you cannot unring the bell.
Oxford languages gives two senses for ' [be] saved by the bell: If a bell produces the sound, is it. If the bell was sounded in close association with their meal, the dogs learnt to associate the sound of the bell with food. Ask not for whom the bell tolls is a popular cliche. I am trying to understand some.
But in donne's poem, the line is any man's. Why does the word bell have two letter l? The bell, once rung, cannot be unrung. I am reading hemingway's for whom the bell tolls (an edition from 1960). A person working in an indian supermarket was shocked when i told her it's called bell pepper in the us, uk, canada.
Throughout the book, strong words and obscenities are replaced literally by the term. What is learned or suspected outside of court may have. For example, he struck a bell when the dogs were fed. Or you cannot unring the bell.
If a bell produces the sound, is it. If the bell was sounded in close association with their meal, the dogs learnt to associate the sound of the bell with food. Ask not for whom the bell tolls is a popular cliche. I am trying to understand some of the idiosyncrasies of the english language.