Dr. Suess came up with the word "nerd" in 1950 in his book If I Ran the Zoo. In this video for Storied, Dr. Erica Brozovsky looks at words created by authors, including "pandemonium" (John Milton), "freelancer" (Sir Walter Scott), "chortle" (Lewis Carroll), "quark" (James Joyce), "robot" (Karel Capek), and "meme" (Richard Dawkins).
Video looks at popular words first coined in books
William Gibson on how he coined the word "cyberspace" (video)
In William Gibson's classic 1984 cyberpunk novel Neuromancer, he coined the word "cyberspace" as the "consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators" jacked in to the digital network.… READ THE REST
If the person who named Walkie-Talkies named other things too
What would the world be like if the person who Named Walkie-Talkies named everything around us? As this funny article points out, forks would be "stabbie grabbies", spoons would be… READ THE REST
Website that helps you find a better word than "very"
Lose the Very is a very useful, i mean "imperative", website that will help both your vocabulary and writing skills. To use the site, type in the word "very" plus… READ THE REST
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