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* '''sovereign:''' royal → [[Really?]] | * '''sovereign:''' royal → [[Really?]] | ||
| − | * '''pound:''' the former unit of currency in Ireland; in "old money" (i.e. before 1971, when decimalisation was introduced), one pound (£1) was equivalent to 240 pence (240d) | + | * '''pound:''' the former unit of currency in Ireland; in "old money" (i.e. before 1971, when decimalisation was introduced), one pound (£1) was equivalent to 240 pence (240d). In Ireland "pound" was often Gaelicized to "punt." |
* '''punned:''' (1) made a pun; (2) pounded, beat | * '''punned:''' (1) made a pun; (2) pounded, beat | ||
* '''Peter’s Pence:''' (1) an annual tax or tribute of a silver penny from each householder having land of a certain value, paid before the Reformation to the Papal See at Rome; (2) any donation to the Catholic Church | * '''Peter’s Pence:''' (1) an annual tax or tribute of a silver penny from each householder having land of a certain value, paid before the Reformation to the Papal See at Rome; (2) any donation to the Catholic Church | ||
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| + | * '''Peter:''' St Peter, the apostle and first Bishop of Rome; in FW Saints Peter and Paul are often paired as [[Shem]] and [[Shaun]] characters; in the first draft of this sentence, Joyce wrote: '''A sovereign punned to paltry pence''', making the allusion to St Paul ('''''pal''try''') explicit | ||
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160319&q1=Peter Third Census of Finnegans Wake] | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160319&q1=Peter Third Census of Finnegans Wake] | ||
| + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl000500050064&isize=M A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake] | ||
Latest revision as of 14:51, 23 May 2016
- one sovereign pound to every penny → every word in FW is equal to 240 words in an "ordinary" book?
- sovereign: from 1817-1914, a pound coin in “old money”
- sovereign: royal → Really?
- pound: the former unit of currency in Ireland; in "old money" (i.e. before 1971, when decimalisation was introduced), one pound (£1) was equivalent to 240 pence (240d). In Ireland "pound" was often Gaelicized to "punt."
- punned: (1) made a pun; (2) pounded, beat
- Peter’s Pence: (1) an annual tax or tribute of a silver penny from each householder having land of a certain value, paid before the Reformation to the Papal See at Rome; (2) any donation to the Catholic Church
