DR. SEUSS

DR. SEUSS INVENTED THE WORDS "NERD" AND "CRUNK":

Are you familiar with the word "crunk"? If not, "crunk" is a combination of the words "crazy" and "drunk" . . . and it means to get extremely hammered, as in, "Tonight at the party I'm going to get CRUNK." (--It became popular after Southern rappers used it a lot, and now it's used to describe a type of hip-hop that's more party-oriented.)

Anyway, most people probably think "crunk" is a NEW word that was invented by the rapper LIL JON . . . but it turns out DR. SEUSS was the first person to use "crunk" back in 1972. In Dr. Seuss' book "Marvin K. Mooney, Will You Please Go Now!" there's a line that reads, quote, "You can go in a Crunk-car if you wish."

And "crunk" isn't the only semi-mainstream word that Dr. Seuss invented . . . because his 1950 book "If I Ran the Zoo" was the first time the word "nerd" was used. In the book, there's a part which reads, quote, "And then, just to show them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo . . . and bring back an It-Kutch a Preep and a Proo . . . a Nerkle a Nerd and a Seersucker, too!" (Mental Floss)

(--And here's some more trivia for you. Dr. Seuss' editor bet him he couldn't write a book using only 50 words . . . so he wrote "Green Eggs and Ham", which uses exactly 50 words.)