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Friday 01 Nov 2013: Origin of the word moron
The term "moron" was introduced around 1910 by American psychologist and eugenicist Henry H. Goddard to identify a person with a mental age of an 8-12 year-old. He derived the term from the Ancient Greek word for "dull".

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