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IF your correspondent, “M. A. I.,” instead of endeavouring to negative the conclusions of Mr. Wake's paper “by such nonsense as the reference to Paddy and Taffy,” as the author of the paper justly observes, had brought forward the word Adam itself, and shown that, by dividing it into Ad and am, and prefixing its consonant in each case, we obtain Dad and Mam, father and mother, he might have been held to have been critical, as well as satirical.
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JENKINS, B. The Adamites. Nature 5, 480 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/005480c0
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