Annotation - Chapter 15, Page 168
From Riddley Walker Annotations
- (168:16) "Becaws a woman is a wooman aint she. Shes the 1 with the woom"
Another use of deliberately false etymology. Woman really comes from the Old English wifman (wife-man or female-person), while womb comes from an unrelated word for belly; but Riddley's spelling brings out an obvious fact.