[Bell Historians] Chiming

[Sue Marsden]

.  But it's a
> tradition which has no current usefulness (not that usefulness is what
> matters) and it is a discriminatory one, which, if applied to the
> living, would be illegal.
> John Camp

So what about ringing 2 blows 3 times for a woman, and 3 blows twice
for a man?  Repeated as necessary The total number of blows would then
be equal! But would still enable distinction to be made between male
and female deaths.
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