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RotSteinFinke@feddit.org 14 hours agoI recently learned that the word clock originally ment bell or bell chime. It’s related to the German word Glocke. So 7 o’clock = 7 bongs…
antsu@discuss.tchncs.de 4 hours ago
madjo@feddit.nl 11 hours ago
And the o’ in o’clock means “of the clock”
Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
Yes, 7 tolls of the clock
vateso5074@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Makes sense then why “clock” still has the additional meaning of “to hit.” Like “I clocked him on the head.”