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* '''wife''' → '''wyfie''' → '''phifie''' ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft.p0059&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake] * '''wifey, wifie:''' pet names for one's wife → '''addle liddle phifie''' = ''had a little wifey'' * '''addle liddle phifie:''' [[ALP]], a recurring initialism for Anna Livia Plurabelle * '''Fifi:''' petname for Josephine → Napoleon Bonaparte's Joséphine? ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0236&isize=L Third Census of Finnegans Wake] * '''fife:''' a small, high-pitched flute used to accompany drums in a military marching band → particularly associated with Protestant marching bands in Ulster * '''phi:''' the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet, commonly used to denote the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_%28waves%29 phase of a wave] in physics; the diameter of a circle in geometry * '''fie:''' an expression of distaste or disapproval * '''Pfeife''' (german) pipe *'''Piffle:''' nonsense or jibberish, hence, addle (confuse) little (no consequnece) and pifle (nonsense). No doubt the characterising the three occupants of The Tub: the Catholic, the Anglican and the Presbyterian

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