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Adam's ale
Adam's ale
Adam's ale
A jocular term for water, based on the strong likelihood that Adam hadn't discovered anything stronger (and they call the Garden of Eden a paradise?). Apparently no fans of alliterations, Scots used to refer to water as “Adam's beer.”
See also:
ale
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Danielius
-
Lithuanian
Janine
zha-NEEN
(French)
, jə-NEEN
(English)
French, English, Dutch, German
Math
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Welsh Mythology
Pearson
['piəsn]
Zhirayr
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Armenian
Piloqutinnguaq
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Native American, Greenlandic
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