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[sagehen]

Charles Wells writes:

>ESP: Extra sensory perception.  Originated outside sf fandom, I think.<
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ESP goes back at least to Alexis Carrel's book, /Man the Unknown,/
published in 1935.  It's been many years since I read this, but in it he
describes experiments in establishing the existence of ESP which had been
going on, I think, for years at that time. I don't think it was ever spoken
as an acronym, esp, but always as ee-ess-pee.
A. Murie