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- Earliest known use 1950s The earliest known use of the noun is in the 1950s. OED's earliest evidence for is from 1955, in a text by Spike Milligan, comedian and author, and E. Sykes.
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According to Benjamin Nugent, author of American Nerd: The Story of My People, the word nerd first appeared in the Dr. Seuss book If I Ran the Zoo, in which one of the zoo creatures, an angry little old man, was called a “nerd.”
The nerd, in his cliche form, first stepped out upon the world stage in the mid-1970s, when we were beginning to hear the first rumblings of what would become the Cambrian explosion of the information society.
Oct 17, 2023 · When was the term “nerd” first coined? The term “nerd” is believed to have originated in the 1950s, appearing in Dr. Seuss’s book “If I Ran the Zoo.” However, it didn’t gain widespread popularity until the late 1970s and early 1980s, coinciding with the rise of computer technology and the popularity of role-playing games like ...
Feb 25, 2016 · “Nerd” entered the lexicon in the early 1950s. According to the Oxford English Dictionary , the first known published use of “nerd” was in a 1951 article in Newsweek, which declared, “In Detroit,...
Sep 30, 2010 · It was just one year after the Dr. Seuss book, in 1951 in a Newsweek magazine article, that we find the first documented case of “nerd” being used similarly to how we use it today. Specifically, they used it as being synonymous with someone who was a “drip” or a “square”.
Jun 30, 2016 · The term nerd has no clear origin, but most sources agree that it is from the '50s. The AHD, for instance, states that: The first known occurrence of the word nerd, undefined but illustrated, dates from 1950 and is found in If I Ran the Zoo, a children's book by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel).
