[Bell Historians] The nine tellers

[John Camp]

At 21:48 on 21 July 2008, john [Ketteringham] wrote:

> By the way I think when we refer to a bell being 'tolled'   we think of a
> large bell and a small bell is 'chimed'.

OK.  But if you ring a bell which is 'up' in a slow and deliberate
fashion, pausing between strokes, doesn't that count as 'tolling'?  I
think that the word has more to do with what it sounds like than how it
is produced.

John Camp