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* '''promptly sends an inquiring one''' → '''prumptly sends an unquiring one''' ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&entity=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft.p0058&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake] * '''rump:''' arse, backside * '''Humpty Dumpty''' * '''enquiring, inquiring''' → altered to "unquiring", one of many confusions of words used to illustrate [[HCE|HCE's]] confusion as he sleeps (or, alternately, navigates the underworld, as in the Egyptian Book of the Dead) * '''quiris:''' (''Latin'') foreign * '''quiris:''' (''Latin'') spear → cf. Giambattista Vico, ''The New Science'' ¶ 562: "Among the Romans, Juno is called Quirinia, and Mars Quirinus, from the noun ''quiris'', spear. And Romulus, who excelled with the spear in his life, was likewise called Quirinus after his death. Similarly, when they met in solemn assembly, the Roman people were called Quirites, because they were armed with javelins" → see ''pike'' in [[upturnpikepointandplace]] in the next line

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