twey

To take a typical example, Joyce alluded to Aelfric's Homilies by lifting the word twey from his copy of Saintsbury's History of English Prose Rhythm and wrote out twey ” an archaic spelling of "two" ” in his own hand four times.

The Scandal of 'Ulysses' Kidd, John 1988

Even correspondence about the 1937 Bodley Head text (the twey/tway botch) gullibly embraced in 1984 is available.

The Scandal of 'Ulysses' Kidd, John 1988

Someone attempting to correct the text of the Bodley Head edition in 1937 checked a dictionary, located tway but not twey.

The Scandal of 'Ulysses' Kidd, John 1988

What hypothetical "someone attempting to correct the text" in London in 1936/37 should have had a reason sufficiently to doubt the quaint archaism of "Watchers they there walk" (the reading of 1936) so as to locate the authentic replacement for "they" as "tway/twey" in a dictionary?

'The Scandal of Ulysses': An Exchange Adams, Robert M. 1988

An early draft manuscript, the Rosenbach Manuscript, the typescript of the lost final working manuscript, and Joyce's notesheets for "Oxen of the Sun" in the British Museum all have twey.

The Scandal of 'Ulysses' Kidd, John 1988

In the wall of the north aisle, just opposite the king's tomb, is a small chapel, built according to the directions contained in his will "that ther be a chauntre perpetuall with twey prestis for to sing and prey for my soul."

The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.]. Hartley Withers 1908

'So mote I BROUKEN wel min eyen twey,' and 'Lady of the Lake,' I. xxviii --

Marmion Walter Scott 1801

For the discredited 1937 changes adopted by Gabler (such as Gabler's tway for Joyce's twey), Professor Futura cites Kidd's well-known paper (read April 26, 1985, society for Textual scholarship, New York) arguing that most of the changes were caused not by Joyce's intervention but by proofreading against the 1932 Hamburg setting (e.g., 1932 "15 june," 1936 "15 June," but 1937 "15 june").

'The Scandal of Ulysses': An Exchange Adams, Robert M. 1988

[* leaf 137a] þat is twenty, for he hym selfe betokenes twey {ne}, &  ten tymes twene is twenty.

The Earliest Arithmetics in English Anonymous 1902

We are then left with two examples: a spelling ( "tway" as against "twey") and a complex substantive reading ” the only example, except for two of the name forms, to touch at all upon the words of Ulysses.

'The Scandal of Ulysses': An Exchange Adams, Robert M. 1988