Video looks at popular words first coined in books

Dr. Suess came up with the word "nerd" in 1950 in his book If I Ran the Zoo. In this video for Storied, Dr. Erica Brozovsky looks at words created by authors, including "pandemonium" (John Milton), "freelancer" (Sir Walter Scott), "chortle" (Lewis Carroll), "quark" (James Joyce), "robot" (Karel Capek), and "meme" (Richard Dawkins). — Read the rest