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  • noun rare Alternative spelling of nerd.

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  • The earliest appearance of the alternate spelling that is noted on the amateur scholarship sites that I can find is "nurd" in a 1965 issue of the Bachelor, which I have seen, and even probably have in some file boxes somewhere.

    Archive 2007-07-01 James Killus 2007

  • The earliest appearance of the alternate spelling that is noted on the amateur scholarship sites that I can find is "nurd" in a 1965 issue of the Bachelor, which I have seen, and even probably have in some file boxes somewhere.

    You say nerd; I say knurd James Killus 2007

  • February 9, 2008 at 5:27 pm mee, tu…. wuz debate nurd! red proze an poetree, an did 2-man debayt ….

    damn anti-gravity cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • I became a “publications nurd,” and wound up editing three student magazines during my undergraduate years.

    The Smartest Guy in the Room James Killus 2007

  • In fact, before the movie Revenge of the Nerds, the only way I'd seen it spelled was knurd, and nurd.

    Archive 2007-07-01 James Killus 2007

  • A bit of a prat, forsooth, but streets better than the self-absorbed dishonest nurd who we've endured for a decade.

    The First 80 Pages of Alastair Campbell 2007

  • I'm a nurd; who knows what sort of cool thing I might find in Annals of the IQSY 5 Solar-Terrestrial Physics?

    Archive 2007-11-01 James Killus 2007

  • I'm a nurd; who knows what sort of cool thing I might find in Annals of the IQSY 5 Solar-Terrestrial Physics?

    Me and Carmen Sandiego James Killus 2007

  • I became a “publications nurd,” and wound up editing three student magazines during my undergraduate years.

    Archive 2007-01-01 James Killus 2007

  • In fact, before the movie Revenge of the Nerds, the only way I'd seen it spelled was knurd, and nurd.

    You say nerd; I say knurd James Killus 2007

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