Jotalpheson

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  • Jotalpheson: Jason → Hokey jasons
    • R.A. Stewart Macalister: The Secret Languages of Ireland (Cabridge University Press, 1937) pp 90-91 notes sthat Bog Latin certain letters in Irish words are replaced by the name of the Irish letter-of-the-alphabet, "as if a Greek meaning Jason called him 'Jotalphason'."