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nerd Sep 27th 2011, 14:26 Etymology: ← Older revision Revision as of 14:26, 27 September 2011 (One intermediate revision by one user not shown) Line 2: Line 2: ==English== ==English== - ===Alternative forms=== + HALOO - * [[nurd]] ''very rare''   - ===Etymology=== + BOE!!!!!!!! - {{unk.}}   - * 1951, U.S. student slang, probably an alteration of {{term|nerts||lang=en|nuts", "crazy}}. See [[#References|references]] below.   - * The same word capitalized with appeared in 1950 in [[w:Dr. Seuss|Dr. Seuss]]'s ''If I Ran the Zoo'' as the name of an imaginary animal:   - *: ''And then, just to show them, I'll sail to Katroo / And bring back an It-Kutch, a Preep and a Proo, / A Nerkle, a '''Nerd''' and a Seersucker too!''   - * Various unlikely folk etymologies and less likely [[backronym]] speculations also exist.   - <!--These are all discredited. See also http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/N/nerd.html   - Possibly from Mortimer Snerd, the name of [[w:Edgar Bergen|Edgar Bergen]]'s ventriloquist dummy.   - Possibly from the [[acronym]] N.E.R.D. on the pocket protectors of employees of the company Northern Electric Research and Developments; it should be noted, however, that speculative etymologies based on acronyms are almost always false (such as "port out, starboard home" for "[[posh]]" and "to insure promptness" for "[[tip]]") and are known as [[w:backronym|backronyms]].   - Possibly a pronunciation of the word "[[drunk]]" spelled in reverse ("knurd"), used to mean a person who does not drink at parties; however, this seems somewhat contrived.   - -->   ===Pronunciation=== ===Pronunciation===

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