[Bell Historians] ANZAB Festival (RW 2013, p.695)

[Robert Lewis]

At 23:30 15/07/2013, Richard wrote:

>Whilst on the subject of that particular article, I will raise the 
>thorny topic I have queried before in this forum.
>
>Why has it been felt necessary to invent the new noun, 'carillonist' 
>for those who play a carillon? The word 'carillonneur' has served 
>the English language perfectly well for some considerable time, so 
>what precipitated the desire for this new(ish) invention??

Probably a grammatical flight of fancy on the part of some 
continental onanist (or should that be wankeur?) ...

RAL