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[Lynn Ronkainen]

In the US the word nerd predates the PC era
Lynn 



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On Aug 17, 2016, at 8:14 PM, Lesley de Voil <lesleymdv at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8/18/16, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:
> Then there's a "wonk" as in "nerd": "His article was of interest
> mostly to foreign-policy wonks."
In OZ, a wonk is someone with status ( and maybe expertise) whereas a
nerd is merely the software knowitall lower down the departmental
foodchain.
Regards
Lesley de Voil