Talk:Cowbell

message: Cowbells are a cruelty to animals.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.196.128.141 (talk) 10:46, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cowbells: Cruelty to animals 

message: I am referring to the children's picture book Uorsin (Schellen-Ursli. Ein Engadiner Bilderbuch). by Selina Chönz and Alois Carigiet (1945). Though the German text calls it a "Glocke", Carigiet clearly depicts a trychel in his illustrations. I don't know which word Chönz used in her original text in Romansh. (The "Schelle" in Ursli's nickname refers to the tiny bell he receives and for which he is mocked by the other boys).
Given the book's international popularity, I would like to present the story as a modern example reflecting the folklore/myth mentioned in the article's current text, but the fact that the book doesn't call it a Treichel, makes me uncertain whether it would be appropriate, and also whether the distinction should be pointed out in this context. Thoughts? ---Sluzzelin talk 09:59, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Schellen-Ursli? 

message: The term trychel isn't in the Oxford dictionary. I've never heard the term used in English.
Does this term have any evidence of currency? I've only ever called it a "cowbell" or "Alpine cowbell".
The OED has this as the first sense of cowbell, predating the musical instrument by over 100 years.
Prof Wrong (talk) 12:28, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: again, feel free to edit this yourself. I am not objecting to anything. It's a wiki. If you google, you will find both "cowbell" and "cow bell" are common. dab (𒁳) 07:29, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

text: I agree. Using a space in the middle of the word to disambiguate is horrible when the single- and double-word spellings are used for both the the original meaning and for the musical instrument. It's better to disambiguate by using a disambiguation page and parenthetical disambiguation phrases, and have thus made the moves. —Lowellian (reply) 06:56, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trychel? Not in the OED. 

message: I didn't want to change the article too much, but I went through it and fixed the structure and grammar. I want to create another section, as some of the information is still jumbled. Any feedback suggestions would help! (New to editing so forgive me if I did something totes wrong) — Preceding unsigned comment added by JCDavis13 (talk • contribs) 05:07, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fixed readability, would like feedback 

message: This article definitely needs more cowbell!  () meteor_sandwich_yum (talk) 03:02, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  After reading this article... (off-topic joke) 

message: I admit I got sidetracked (I came to this article to help copyedit it, but got hung up on the references part).
I noticed the following quote didn't have anything but the citation listed: (permalink)
I conclude the previous text ("Grimm's Deutsches Wörterbuch s.v. "Kuhschelle" points to a 1410 mention ...") refers to the German dictionary started by the Brothers Grimm, with s.v. being a Latin abbreviation for "under the heading of". From the text "...In Rabelais,  France in the mid-16th century he makes this practice explicit in his Gargantua and Pantagruel..." it refers to any member of a series of five books, collectively entitled Gargantua and Pantagruel, by author Francois Rabelais.
My confusion: what does Francois Rabelais have to do with the Brothers Grimm? Was Rabelais listed in a German dictionary under the heading of "Schelle"? I checked Project Gutenberg's full text of all five books and didn't find a "Schelle" anywhere. Am I missing something? meteor_sandwich_yum (talk) 06:06, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  On a more serious note, trying to comprehend a confusing short citation 

message: QR code in place Elrebe56 (talk) 01:40, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: QR code installed