Four-letter word words of this length are upsetting to some, for religious or personal sensitivity reasons, such as: "" (UK), "", "", "", and "" (UK). Racist, ableist, and slurs pertaining to an individual's sexual orientation may also qualify, such as "" (in the UK not a racial slur, but short for Mongol, or someone with Down syndrome - previously called Mongolism), "", "", "", "", "" and "". Several "four-letter words" have multiple meanings (some even serving as given names), and usually only offend when used in their vulgar senses, for example: "", "", "" (UK) and "" (UK). A borderline
Aleriel, or A Voyage to Other Worlds Aleriel, or A Voyage to Other Worlds Aleriel, or A Voyage to Other Worlds is a science fiction novel by Wladislaw Somerville Lach-Szyrma, a Polish-English curate, author, and historian. Published in 1883, "Aleriel" is a Victorian novel, which was previously thought to be the first published work to apply the word "Martian" as a noun (it is now known that the word was first used in 1877): After the protagonist, Aleriel, lands on Mars, he buries his spacecraft in snow, "so that it might not be disturbed by any Martian who might come across it". A new edition was published