Difference between revisions of "Mous at hand"
From FinnegansWiki
Jump to navigationJump to search| Line 3: | Line 3: | ||
* '''mous = Chaucerian form to suggest distance in time:''' Joyce, ''Letters'' 13-05-1927 (to Harriet Shaw Weaver) | * '''mous = Chaucerian form to suggest distance in time:''' Joyce, ''Letters'' 13-05-1927 (to Harriet Shaw Weaver) | ||
| − | * '''mous:''' (''archaic'') mouse | + | * '''mous:''' (''archaic'') mouse → ''Hickory Dickory Dock, The mouse ran up the clock'' |
Revision as of 13:46, 19 November 2010
- close at hand: Joyce, Letters 13-05-1927 (to Harriet Shaw Weaver)
- mous = Chaucerian form to suggest distance in time: Joyce, Letters 13-05-1927 (to Harriet Shaw Weaver)
- mous: (archaic) mouse → Hickory Dickory Dock, The mouse ran up the clock
