July 05, 2023
Cliché, frequently used to describe something overly familiar, comes from the clicking sound of arranging typesetting blocks in a printing press.
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The Bizarre Origins of the Words Nerd and Geek
Nerd and geek have similar etymologies, with neither originally having much positive association. 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
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