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789bet The earliest known examples of the word date back to 1780
789bet its etymology is unknown
789bet but it may have originated in student slang
789bet It originally meant an "odd, eccentric person" or a "joke, hoax"
789bet Later (perhaps by association with words such as "inquisitive") it came to mean "to observe, study intently", and then (from about mid-19th century) "test, exam."
789bet He then went out and hired a group of street children to write the word "quiz", which was a nonsense word, on walls around the city of Dublin
789bet Within a day, the word was common currency and had acquired a meaning (since no one knew what it meant, everyone thought it was some sort of test) and Daly had some extra cash in his pocket
789bet However, there is no evidence to support the story, and the term was already in use before the meaningful bet in 1791.
789bet There is a well-known myth about the word quiz that says that in 1791 a Dublin theater owner named Richard Daly made a bet that he could introduce a word into the language within 24 hours