Gagh
Klingons enjoy eating living worms called
Gagh.
Klingon word
There are two different words to describe these worms:
ghargh is the word for "serpent worms as animals", while the word
qagh refers to the worms served as food "alive, but with seasonings and sauce added"
.
Serpent worm
During an interview,
Marc Okrand said that the authors of
Star Trek: The Next Generation had made a small mistake when overseeing a small comma in
TKD: The entry for
ghargh says "serpent, worm"
, but some authors read this as "serpent worm".
It was only in the
addendum where Okrand introduced the new definition "serpent worm" with the new word
qagh.
Why two words
Many actors mispronounced
ghargh with a /g/ - i.e. /gakh/ or even /gag/ (rhyming with frog), Okrand adapted to this pronunciation and added it to the new edition of the dictionary.
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