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“Onamatterpoetic” in James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" (1939)
"Onamatterpoetic" (468.10), a word in James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" (1939), echoes "onomatopoetic", the adjective form of "onomatopoeia", which means that a word means what it sounds like, such as the palindrome "tattarrattat" Joyce coined in "Ulysses" (1922): "I knew his tattarrattat at the door." "Onomatopoeia" is a direct borrowing