Spigotty anglease

• Jesperson, Language 20.4: “Panamanians, when addressed, used to reply ‘No spiggoty (speak) Inglis’”

• spigot: a vent-peg on a beer barrel

• Pigott: Richard Piggott, Irish journalist who forged letters linking Parnell to the Phoenix park Assassinations of 1882 → in FW Piggott represents the combined Shem-Shaun character (File:Shem-Shaun.PNG)
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake

• Spiggoty: (US slang) a derogatory American slang for a person from a Spanish-speaking country in South or Central America or a Spanish-speaking community in the USA. Spanish-American, a foreign language

• Anglais: (French) English

• do you speak English?