Wordie: Erg: Comments

Comment by skipvia, about 1 year ago

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 05:34:23 +0000

Great. I thought Amp, Ohm, and Erg were the three elves that brought us electricity.

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:34:03 +0000

Always makes me think of the board game (from the 80's I think) that was based on Frank Herbert's Dune books. There were lots of ergs in there.

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:26:06 +0000

An erg is a sandy desert vs a rocky one (hamada); see http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/erg.

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 17:48:30 +0000

Origin: 1870–75; < Gk érgon work