Girlic teangue
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- garlic tongue → has Issy been eating garlic as well as raw meat?
- Gaelic tongue → ráiméis is Gaelic
- teanga: (Irish) (1) tongue (2) language
- tang: teanga is pronounced tang-a, so teanga + tongue suggests that teangue should be pronounced tang → cf. Ulysses 053.03-04: "Most of all he [Bloom] liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine."
