Correction of OED

Shapiro, Fred Fred.Shapiro at YALE.EDU
Tue Dec 11 11:46:43 UTC 2007


The etymological note in OED, s.v. _nerd_, dates the Random House Historical Dictionary of Slang 1977.  Should this be 1997?

Fred Shapiro

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