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At the gates of Hell, in Dante’s Inferno, there is an inscrip­tion which is typ­i­cally trans­lated as “Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter Here”

For some rea­son, I always recall that par­tic­u­lar cliché as “Abandon Hope, Ye Who Enter Here” instead. When acronymized, as one would do for short­hand tech-support slang — such as PEBKAC — to indi­cate the “fourth-hand walk­through” sce­nario, it becomes AHYWEH, which is barely an ana­gram for YAHWEH.

All just coin­ci­dence, I’m sure.