Bababad

• Babel: the confusion of tongues at the tower of Babel (Genesis 11)

• Babbo: a nickname which Joyce's children gave him

• b-b-bad: "bad" spoken by someone with a stutter → in FW HCE's stutter - or hesitancy of speech - is a sign of his guilt, just as Pigott's misspelling of "hesitancy" as "hesitency" in his forged Parnell letters betrayed his guilt

• I bád: boat?

Badal:In Hindi is 'rain and thunder'.A self reflexive reference to thunder words.