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I wouldn't say the inventor, had a reason for calling clocks clocks, the person in which invented clocks came up with the name himself

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The term "clocks" likely comes from the Middle English word "clokke," which originated from the Latin word "clocca" meaning "bell." Clocks used to primarily consist of mechanisms with bells to indicate time, thus the name stuck.

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