By Mike Sutton.
You would think that with all our nerdy skills and knowledge that we nerds would have a pretty good handle on where our moniker came from.
The breaking news is that current etymological nerdlaw is 151 years out.
While all orthodox knowledge claims have had it for decades that the word nerd originated in a 1950 Dr Seuss book the reality is that it occurred in print in 1799 and that nerd is a very ancient game of Persian backgammon.
The original nerd – 1799
