Why dont we have a wrist-clock rather than a wrist-watch? Or why not a wall-watch rather than wall-clock?
Who decided this?
2007-06-11 00:18:30 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
CLOCK dates from 1371 Old English "clokke", orig. "clock with bells," probably from medieval dutch word "klocke" meaning bell.
WATCH originates from Old English "wæcce" "a watching," from "wæccan". it has the sense of "sentinel" is recorded from c.1300; that of "person or group officially patroling a town (esp. at night) to keep order, etc." is first recorded 1539
The meaning "small timepiece" is from 1588, developing from that of "a clock to wake up sleepers".
2007-06-11 00:29:34 · answer #1 · answered by Mojo Risin 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Watch is a watch because we wear it on a watch, when we close up, and we watch the watch, while on watch! Clock is a clock, because it is a clock on the wall, and you clock the time with the clock on the wall, and then call it the wall clock!
2007-06-11 00:29:58 · answer #2 · answered by swanjarvi 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't know but right now i'm at work clock watching! Gimme the 10 points!
2007-06-11 00:33:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Super Fly got the right answere for u.
2007-06-11 01:25:21 · answer #4 · answered by bilbo b 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some clocks are really called time pieces,i think it depends on how they are made and what their mechanics are.
something like that anyway.....
lol
xxx
2007-06-11 00:23:34 · answer #5 · answered by Honeybee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's just the way they are, some smart/dumb person decided this and it just stuck!
2007-06-11 00:29:59 · answer #6 · answered by nirvanapure1213 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's the way things are ha ha.!!!
2007-06-11 04:14:26 · answer #7 · answered by JAM123 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i just look at them when i need to.to me its a time piece.
2007-06-11 03:14:37 · answer #8 · answered by mariolla oneill 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's the way they are :P
2007-06-11 00:25:40 · answer #9 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋