Dirty MacDyke

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  • DickShaun is Dick when Shem is Harry, and Shem-Shaun is Tom
  • dyke: a lesbian → MacDyke would then mean "Son of Lesbian" → the Irish poet Thomas Moore was married to a Bessy Dyke, so their children could be called FitzThomas or MacDyke; they had five children: two daughters died in infancy; a third died when she was sixteen; their two sons also predeceased them, one in 1841 and the other, Thomas, in Africa from consumption in 1845 → Touchole Fitz Tuomush
  • dirt → associated in FW with Shem rather than Shaun?