And Dr. Seuss is credited with inventing the word "nerd." From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. From our ...

Dr. Seuss’ books are beloved by children, but did you know the author never had biological children of his own? Also, he invented the word “nerd.” Born Theodor Seuss Geisel in Springfield ...

Theodor Seuss Geisel, who was called Ted as a ... a hapless Army recruit called Private Snafu. He might have invented the word "nerd," which appears in his 1950 book "If I Ran the Zoo" – though ...

What appears to be the first known, printed usage of the word "nerd" was in Dr. Seuss' 1950 book "If I Ran the Zoo" — which Dr. Seuss Enterprises is no longer publishing. Although the way Seuss ...

Nerd The word nerd was first used in the 1950 Dr. Seuss book If I Ran the Zoo, in which a nerd was one one of the many oddly named creatures in the titular zoo. According to Ben Zimmer of ...

Seuss pictured his nerd as a thin cross humanoid creature. His coined word and illustration were picked up by small kids and the usage evolved to its present connotation. Doubters of Dr. Seuss as ...

And one book, 1950’s “If I Ran the Zoo,” put the word “nerd” into the lexicon ... “I think that the key to Dr. Seuss’ enduring appeal lies in the spirit of playfulness that permeates ...

Dr. Seuss’ books are beloved by children, but did you know the author never had biological children of his own? Also, he invented the word “nerd.” Born Theodor Seuss Geisel in Springfield ...