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THE workers in physics and engineering, respectively, in the University of Edinburgh, who were contemporary with Joule, were Tait and Fleeming Jenkin. Tait was a perfervid supporter of correct pronunciation of proper names: witness his joke regarding his fellow pupil at the Edinburgh Academy, Tate, afterwards archbishop, as a man who did not know how to spell his own name.
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PEDDIE, W. [Letter to Editors]. Nature 152, 602 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152602c0
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