“Can you nei do her, numb? asks Dolph, suspecting the answer know. Oikkont, ken you, ninny? asks Kev, expecting the answer guess.”

—  James Joyce, book Finnegans Wake

286.25-27
Finnegans Wake (1939)

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Irish novelist and poet 1882–1941

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