"Neanderthal/ ~tal"

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

>   Is it just that there
> are no (or relatively few) Neandert(h)als around to protest
> our changing their name compared to the number of extant
> Blumenthals and Rosenthals?
>

The cavemen in the Geico Insurance commercials seem to be pretty quick
to take offense  . . . .

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