Difference between revisions of "Boomeringstroms"

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* '''Strom:''' (''German'') stream
 
* '''Strom:''' (''German'') stream
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* '''boom:''' (''Dutch'') tree = '''strom''' (Czech)
  
 
* '''Bummerin''', the bell of Vienna's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Stephen%27s_Cathedral,_Vienna St. Stephen's Cathedral]
 
* '''Bummerin''', the bell of Vienna's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Stephen%27s_Cathedral,_Vienna St. Stephen's Cathedral]

Revision as of 09:41, 19 March 2015

  • boomerang: a wooden weapon or instrument most closely identified with Australian Aborigines
    • Note that Austrians don't like to be confused with Austrialians, and Joyce manages to put two allusions to both countries into two neighbooring words
  • Strom: (German) stream
  • boom: (Dutch) tree = strom (Czech)
  • maelstroms: whirlpools
  • booming storms: → cf Rose's emendation of Assiegates to Assiegales