BIG BEN
Sir-In\ reply to Betty Keene’s letter, I think she is unfair in her remarks about the quiz-master. First, she is splitting hairs, as the name "Big Ben" has through common usage come to mean the -whole clock rather than the hour bell. Secondly, she is in error: the clock is not St. Stephen’s, but the Westminster Clock-or, as the designer Lord Grimthorpe titled his drawing, "The Great Westminster Clock." E. Dent and Co., London, the makers, prefer in their trade advertisements to use the more friendly term "Big Ben." Incidentally, the chimes now called the Westminster chimes are more correctly named the Cambridge chimes, and are said to have been invented by
Dr Crotch in 1780 from an air by Handel. What’s in a name, anyway? Pere haps Betty’s correct name is Elizabeth
A. R.
JONES
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 926, 10 May 1957, Page 11
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139BIG BEN New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 926, 10 May 1957, Page 11
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