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<DIV><SPAN class=469344812-28012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>No
neither am I but in the French "montre" is both the verb "to show" and the noun
"watch". Maybe watch indicates the possibility of seeing the time rather
than the exclusion of striking a bell.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>Andrew</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com [mailto:bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com]<B>On
Behalf Of </B>John Camp<BR><B>Sent:</B> 27 January 2007 19:48<BR><B>To:</B>
bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bell Historians] Re:
bells in Canterbury during Chaucer's time?<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<P>At 16:07 on 22 January 2007, Andrew Aspland wrote:<BR><BR>> If you have
a dial but no bell so you have to look at it to tell the<BR>> time then you
have a "watch".<BR><BR>I'm not wholly convinced by this. From the
OED:<BR><BR>1610 SHAKESPEARE. Tempest. II. i. 12 Looke, hee's winding up the
watch<BR>of his wit, By and by it will strike.<BR><BR>1625 B. JONSON Staple of
News. I. i, (He drawes foorth his watch, and<BR>sets it on the table.) 't
strikes! One, two, Three, foure, fiue, six.<BR>Inough, inough, deare
watch.<BR><BR>John
Camp<BR><BR></P></DIV><!--End group email --></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>