Over on KairosNews, blacklily8 playfully taunts editor Charlie, “Can you tell me what the difference is between a geek a nerd? You seem to be the expert!“
I had a minute before heading home for the day, and thus spake Google:
http://jargon.watson-net.com/jargon.asp?w=geek
http://jargon.watson-net.com/jargon.asp?w=nerd
The Jargon Lexicon notes that the word “nerd” probably derives from the Dr. Seuss book “If I Ran the Circus,” but as I recall reading that book to my son (it was one of a dozen or so Seuss books we regularly checked out of the library) I’m fairly sure it was spelled “nurd”.
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