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From Erwin Chargaff’s (1986) Serious Questions: “Clearly, a chase has been declared on that odious three-letter word, and I expect soon to encounter woperson for woman, huperson for human, personhole for manhole, to personage for to manage, etc. I find the idea that you can scrabble your way to a new consciousness ridiculous. If this form of linguistic Luddism is not stopped by its own absurdity, we may still hear of Hebrews and Shebrews.”