Senior ga dito: Faciasi Omo! E omo fu fò

• This fractured Italian translates as something like: "The Lord said, let there be man! and there was man." According to Roland McHugh, Annotations to Finnegans Wake, this and the following passage were related to Joyce by his friend Ottocaro Weiss, who overheard a boy imitating a Slovenian preacher's bad Italian

• Omo: a river in Ethiopia