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Rothman, Irving N. "The 'Hnea Yahoo' of Gulliver's Travels and Jonathan Swift's Hebrew Neologisms," SStud, 30 (2015), 160-175.
No one understood better than Swift that verbal puzzles would be seductive, and he sowed them with a liberal hand throughout Gulliver's Travels. A few are easily solved-"Tribnia" is an anagram of "Britain" and "Lindalino" resolves into "Dublin"-and that fact only whets the appetites of those who favor a verbal approach. As Mr. Rothman's careful footnotes make clear, there have been many linguistic inquiries into Gulliver's Travels over...