Lunguam again

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  • linguam (Latin): (with the) tongue
  • longaim (Irish): I lap up
  • "Sláinte and sláinte and sláinte agin:" from a song, "Father O'Flynn", by poet Alfred Percival Graves, father of Robert Graves
    Heres a health to you, Father OFlynn, 
    Slainte and slainte and slainte agin; 
    Powrfulest preacher, and tenderest teacher, 
    And kindliest creature in ould Donegal

Joyce apparently detested the song and wrote a parody, aimed at English novelist Ford Madox Ford, called "Father O'Ford" 

    Oh Father O’Ford you’ve a masterful way with you.   
    Maid, wife and widow are wild to make hay with you.
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