> Did you know that the modern English

> word worm used to mean serpent, snake,

> dragon, reptile? That's why you'll

> sometimes hear dragons called worms

> or wyrms. (Dragons were also depicted

> as snake-like more often back then than

> they are now.) The word worm (formerly

> spelled wurm or wyrm) used to mean

> exactly what the Klingon word ghargh

> means.

I didn't know any of that! 

In fact, sometime in the past I came across a passage where the author was constantly using "wyrm", and I thought that it was a typo!