Difference between revisions of "One sovereign punned to petery pence"
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* '''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 | ||
| + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160319&q1=Peter Third Census of Finnegans Wake] | ||
Revision as of 10:12, 10 October 2006
- 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)
- 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
