👽 What are some common English words of unknown origin?
🤖 Nerd
A person who is boring, stupid and not fashionable
The word nerd is documented to have been first used in the 1950s in the United States. It first appeared in a 1951 article in Newsweek, which declared ‘In Detroit, someone who once would be called a drip or a square is now, regrettably, a nerd.”
Even before that, nerd was used by Dr. Seuss in his book If I Ran the Zoo (published in 1950) as the name of an imaginary creature. However, it is not known where the word really came from.
🤖 Nerd
A person who is boring, stupid and not fashionable
The word nerd is documented to have been first used in the 1950s in the United States. It first appeared in a 1951 article in Newsweek, which declared ‘In Detroit, someone who once would be called a drip or a square is now, regrettably, a nerd.”
Even before that, nerd was used by Dr. Seuss in his book If I Ran the Zoo (published in 1950) as the name of an imaginary creature. However, it is not known where the word really came from.
🔩Junk
Things that are considered useless or of little value
Junk can be traced back to the Old English word jonke of unknown origin, which used to denote an old or inferior rope. It was first used in its current sense in the 19th century.
Things that are considered useless or of little value
Junk can be traced back to the Old English word jonke of unknown origin, which used to denote an old or inferior rope. It was first used in its current sense in the 19th century.