[Bell Historians] Re: Carillonneur vs. carillonist

[edward martin]

No.Language is not exactly logical but I find its history - etymology -
truly fascinating
BTW "  violinIST, flautIST, pianIST etc "
would perhaps have run more logically if 'flaut' was an every day English
word.
I'm not certain,  but I believe it's Italian (for the English' 'flute' which
is of course derived from the French)  hence Eng FLUT(e)ist !
 I have recently discovered that 'flummery' is anglicised from a Welsh word
'llymru' with 'F' = "LL' as in Shakespeare's 'Fluellen' (Llewelyn) etc
mew

On 9/27/06, Bickerton, Roderic K (SELEX) (UK) <
roderic.bickerton at EeLLNQ-UbW_0lc57U3jX4hJL4hz-IzvTn0hEUvXo9hTigrCRyXPq3IIT43BJYJjL46UM72v4X8_V_bKpare06CfV3w5i.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
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> I do not want to be a bell ringist.
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> > Taking the 'ist' ending to its logical musical conclusion, are we in
> > future to refer to Ringo Starr as the former drummist with the
> > Beatles?
> >
> > Yours,
> >
> > Mr Grumpy!
>
> Well it would be logical - violinIST, flautIST, pianIST etc - but
> language isn't logical is it?
> SEM
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