Word: cubit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gigantic laboratory experiment with language, Finnegans Wake is bound to exert an influence far beyond the circle of its immediate readers. Whether Joyce is eventually convicted of assaulting the King's English with intent to kill or whether he has added a cubit to her stature, she will never be quite the same again...