"nerd" etymythology

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Ben Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> "fat"

In print in 1951?! That's fat, Jack!

Take it back one more year and give it the pswaydo-etymological spelling,

_phatt_

?

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