The slang term nerd means an intelligent but single-minded person, obsessed with a certain hobby or pursuit, e.g. a computer nerd. But the word that has been the bane of so many elementary schoolers' existence was actually invented by their king: none other than Dr. Seuss himself! The word first appeared in print in Seuss' 1950 picture book, If I Ran the Zoo, though Seuss' "nerd" is a small animal from the land of Ka-Troo, not a pale kid with glasses taped together.

1. 9 novel English neologisms

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Ilahia School of Management Studies
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3. Nerd
• The slang term nerd means an
intelligent but single-minded
person, obsessed with a certain
hobby or pursuit, e.g. a computer
nerd. But the word that has been
the bane of so many elementary
schoolers' existence was actually
invented by their king: none
other than Dr. Seuss himself! The
word first appeared in print in
Seuss' 1950 picture book, If I Ran
the Zoo, though Seuss' "nerd" is a
small animal from the land of Ka-
Troo, not a pale kid with glasses
taped together.

4. Yahoo
• The origin of this word may add some
unexpected irony to the well-known
internet browser. Originally coined by
Jonathan Swift in his 1726 novel
Gulliver's Travels, Yahoo refers to the
brutish race of homo sapiens ruled by
the Houyhnhnm, a noble race of
speaking horses. Swift's Yahoos
display all of the vices of humanity
with none of the virtues, thus it
makes sense that the word has come
to mean "a coarse or brutish person."
If you say "yahoo" loud enough you
might be moved to experience our
next neologism.

5. Chortle
• Lewis Carroll coined this funny
term for a gleeful chuckle in his
1872 novel, Through the Looking
Glass, the sequel to Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland. In the
novel, the word appears in a
verse poem titled "The
Jabberwocky," in which Alice
finds a book that can only be read
using a mirror. The old man in the
poem "chortles in his joy" when
his son beheads the terrible
monster. Today the word is widely
thought to be a combination of
"chuckle" and "snort."

6. Quark
• A quark can be any group of
elementary particles that
combine to become a subatomic
particle such a neutron or proton.
In other words, quarks are some
of the smallest building blocks of
an atom. In 1964 the U.S.
physicist Murray Gell-Mann
named the particle after a word
he found in James Joyce's novel,
Finnegan's Wake. Joyce's
quotation reads, "Three quarks
for Muster Mark," with "quark"
referring to the cry of the seagull.

7. Utopia
• Utopia is the title of Sir Thomas
More's whimsical and satirical book
written in 1516. More envisions a
perfect society situated on an island
that he names Utopia. Developing
the word from the Greek topos for
"place," More chose the prefix ou- or
u- meaning "not" or "no." Thus the
name Utopia quite literally means no
place at all. Even though More might
have his reservations about the
achievability of a perfect world, our
next neologism might be the closest
thing to a perfect sound.

8. Tintinnabulation
• The American poet and author Edgar
Allen Poe coined this onomatopoetic
word in his 1849 poem "The Bells."
The poem was published shortly after
Poe's death, and though the four
sections of the piece become
progressively darker as Poe describes
four different types of bells,
tintinnabulation characterizes the
joyous sound of silver sleigh bells,
foretelling "a world of merriment."
The word is derived from the Latin
tinnire meaning "to ring" combined
with the instrumental suffix "bulum."

9. Grok
• Do you feel like nobody groks you?
Don't worry, Robert A. Heinlein does.
In his 1961 best-selling science fiction
novel, Stranger in a Strange Land,
Heinlein coined the term to mean an
understanding so thorough that "the
observer becomes a part of the
observed--to merge, blend,
intermarry, lose identity in group
experience." But in common usage
the term means to communicate
sympathetically or to "drink in"
understanding. If you're reading this
slideshow off a screen, you'll
definitely grok our next neologism.

10. Cyberspace
• Though you might not want to build a
house there, anyone with a computer
has a stake in cyberspace. Coined by
the science fiction writer William
Gibson, cyberspace first appeared in
a 1982 short story. The word
combines the terms "cybernetics"
(the use of mechanical and electronic
systems to replace human function)
and "space" (an area or realm).
Together they form "cyberspace," the
realm of electronic communication or
virtual reality. If you've ever thought
"virtual reality" was a bit of an
oxymoron, you might be familiar with
our final neologism.

11. Catch-22
• "The deal sounds great, but what's
the catch?" Have you heard
something like this? Then you'd
better hope the catch isn't a Catch-
22. The phrase represents a
frustrating situation in which one is
trapped by contradictory regulations
or conditions. Catch-22 is the title
and central problem of Joseph
Heller's 1961 novel, and in Heller's
context the catch represents a
simultaneously dangerous and idiotic
military regulation that maddens the
poor characters tangled in his Catch-
22.

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