Fear of um. T. Totities!

• the four of them → Joyce begins to list the four things that have been predicted to occur by the four historians

• vier: (German) four

• fear: (Irish) man

• um: (dialect) them (’em)

• um: (interjection) a sound used by speakers when momentarily hesitating → in FW HCE's guilt is often betrayed by his stammer, or "hesitancy of speech"

• teetotal

• Humpty Dumpty: eponymous character in the popular Mother Goose nursery rhyme → Humpty Dumpty

• teetotum: a foursided disk with a letter on each side, spun in a game of chance to see which side finishes uppermost (originally spelt T totum)

• toties: (Latin) so often