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* '''castles in the air:''' imaginary or unrealistic plans
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* '''castles aired and ventilated''' → '''cashels aired and ventilated'''
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** [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]
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* '''clashes''' → anagram of ''cashels'' → see line 1
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* '''cashels''' → castles + cash
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* '''кошель (kašél):''' (''Russian'') purse, wallet, billfold
  
 
* '''cashel:''' (''Anglo-Irish'') castle, ring fort, stone fort
 
* '''cashel:''' (''Anglo-Irish'') castle, ring fort, stone fort
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* '''caiseal:''' (''Irish'') castle
 
* '''caiseal:''' (''Irish'') castle
 
** '''The Castle:''' Dublin Castle, the centre of British rule in Ireland
 
** '''The Castle:''' Dublin Castle, the centre of British rule in Ireland
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130294 A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0294&id=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer&isize=L A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
  
 
* '''Cashel:''' a town in County Tipperary; formerly the royal seat of the kings of Munster
 
* '''Cashel:''' a town in County Tipperary; formerly the royal seat of the kings of Munster
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130294 A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0294&id=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer&isize=L A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
  
 
* '''kaszel:''' (''Polish'') cough
 
* '''kaszel:''' (''Polish'') cough
  
* '''clashes''' → anagram of ''cashels'' → see line 1
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* '''кашель (kášel'):''' (''Russian'') cough
  
* '''aired and ventilated:''' opinions are aired and ventilated in Parliament
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* '''aired and ventilated:''' opinions are aired and ventilated in Parliament.
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** Ironically, there's a conference center today in Dublin Castle, so many opinions are aired and ventilated there nowadays.
  
* '''heard'''
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* '''castles in the air:''' imaginary or unrealistic plans
  
 
* '''vent:''' (''archaic'') to utter, to publish
 
* '''vent:''' (''archaic'') to utter, to publish
  
 
* '''ventilate:''' (''slang'') to shoot with a gun; (of a bullet) to make a hole
 
* '''ventilate:''' (''slang'') to shoot with a gun; (of a bullet) to make a hole
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* '''heard'''
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* Also, if you unroof a castle, destroying it, it gets "aired and ventilated"

Latest revision as of 14:30, 10 April 2010

  • clashes → anagram of cashels → see line 1
  • cashels → castles + cash
  • кошель (kašél): (Russian) purse, wallet, billfold
  • cashel: (Anglo-Irish) castle, ring fort, stone fort
  • kaszel: (Polish) cough
  • кашель (kášel'): (Russian) cough
  • aired and ventilated: opinions are aired and ventilated in Parliament.
    • Ironically, there's a conference center today in Dublin Castle, so many opinions are aired and ventilated there nowadays.
  • castles in the air: imaginary or unrealistic plans
  • vent: (archaic) to utter, to publish
  • ventilate: (slang) to shoot with a gun; (of a bullet) to make a hole
  • heard
  • Also, if you unroof a castle, destroying it, it gets "aired and ventilated"