{"id":18631,"date":"2023-09-26T19:01:40","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T02:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=18631"},"modified":"2023-09-26T19:01:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T02:01:40","slug":"teep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2023\/09\/26\/teep\/","title":{"rendered":"teep"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I first heard the word <i>teep<\/i>, short for <i>telepath<\/i>, on the TV show <cite>Babylon 5<\/cite> in 1994 or so. Until today, I thought the word had been invented for the show.<\/p>\r\n<p>But I just happened across it in a Philip K. Dick story, \u201cThe Hood Maker,\u201d that was written in 1953 and published in 1955, predating the <cite>B5<\/cite> usage by about 40 years.<\/p>\r\n<p>Dick defines the word shortly after using it for the first time in the story (\u201cErnest Abbud was a telepathic mutant\u2014a teep\u201d), so I\u2019m guessing he didn\u2019t expect it to be widely understood without a definition. (Dick didn\u2019t always define his coinages; for example, there are stories in which he uses the terms <i>robant<\/i> (robot servant) and <i>homeopape<\/i> (homeostatic newspaper) without defining them.)<\/p>\r\n<p>Wiktionary gives another Dick citation for <i>teep<\/i>: his novel <cite>Solar Lottery<\/cite>, also published in 1955. But I haven\u2019t found any earlier citations.<\/p>\r\n<p>So I\u2019m guessing that Dick coined the word in 1953 or so. But I\u2019d be interested in hearing any citations from earlier than that.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etymology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18632,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18631\/revisions\/18632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}