How God uses nerds
A fascinating meeting yesterday with a self-confessed Nerd.
I’ve always associated the term nerd with computer geeks, entirely focussed to the point of obsession while being entirely devoid of social skills. However, I now discover from Wikipedia that Dr Seuss coined the word in 1950 in his book “If I Ran the Zoo.” In that pre-digital age it had the connotation of bookishness.
I guess the English equivalent is the term ‘anorak’ which I have always assumed comes fro