Reeve Gootch was right and Reeve Drughad was sinistrous!

• Rive gauche (French): Left Bank (of a river); specifically, of the Seine in Paris, where the Left Bank district is known for its artistic, bohemian culture (like Shem)

• Rive Droite (French): Right bank (of a river); the Right Bank district in Paris is the city's more commercial, conservative quarter (like Shaun)

• Droichead: (Irish) over the bridge

• Sinister: (Latin) Left

• The 'reeves' are rivers: the Seinne and Liffey. Ulysses was received well in Paris but was sinful and sinister in Dublin.