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xoxoxoBruce · 08-24-2010, 01:55 PM

The term "nerd" originated in the 1950 book “If I Ran the Zoo”.
“And then, just to show them, I’ll sail to Ka-Troo. And Bring Back an IT-KUTCH, a PREEP and a PROO, a NERKLE, a NERD, and a SEERSUCKER, too!”

According to the American Heritage Dictionary’s word history. Experts maintain that Dr. Seuss is the true originator of nerd, and that the word nerd (“comically unpleasant creature”) was picked up by the five- and six-year-olds of 1950 and passed on to their older siblings, who by 1957, as teenagers, had restricted and specified the meaning to the most comically obnoxious creature of their own class, a “square.”’

08-24-2010, 01:55 PM	#33
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	The term "nerd" originated in the 1950 book “If I Ran the Zoo”. “And then, just to show them, I’ll sail to Ka-Troo. And Bring Back an IT-KUTCH, a PREEP and a PROO, a NERKLE, a NERD, and a SEERSUCKER, too!” According to the American Heritage Dictionary’s word history. Experts maintain that Dr. Seuss is the true originator of nerd, and that the word nerd (“comically unpleasant creature”) was picked up by the five- and six-year-olds of 1950 and passed on to their older siblings, who by 1957, as teenagers, had restricted and specified the meaning to the most comically obnoxious creature of their own class, a “square.”’ __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.