Deaf and dumb Danes

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  • Dean: Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin → in parts of Ireland Dean is pronounced Dane#
    • Swift's epigram on the Magazine Fort (FW 012.36 ff.) was said t o be the dying words of his Wit before he lapsed into madness becoming deaf-and-dumb → see, for example, FW 007.05-06 Tilling a teel of a tum, telling a toll of a teary turty Taubling