Borg

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Borg is a family name, and various things. It has three origins:

1. a Scandinavian word for "fort". Many Scandinavian placenames end in "-borg", which originally meant "fort", e.g. Ålborg, Frederiksborg: compare English borough, Scots burgh, and Dutch or German Burg, as in "Middelburg" or "Oldenburg". The spelling "borg" occurs or occurred sometimes elsewhere in the Germanic area, as on this map.
2. a Maltese surname meaning, "castle on stone". Borg (pronounced "Borch"/"Borge") is as common a surname in Malta as the surname Smith in countries such as Australia/England/USA
3. (recently) extracted from "cyborg".

People known by the family name Borg include:

• Anders Borg — a Swedish politician
• Anita Borg — a historical computer scientist.
• Björn Borg — a Swedish tennis player
• Joe Borg — a Maltese politician
• Oscar Borg — a Norwegian composer
• Marcus Borg — a religious scholar
• Richard Borg designer of games such as Memoir '44

Things called Borg or borg include:

• Borg is the homestead built by first-generation Iceland settler Skalla-Grímr Kveldúlfsson and the home to Egill Skallagrímsson, the famous Viking and skald. The peninsula on which it is located is called Borgarness.
• Borg Assimilator a roller coaster at Carowinds
• Borg Warner automotive supply company.
• Borg (Star Trek) — a fictional race of cyborgs in the Star Trek universe.
• Borg — a placename within Vestvågøy municipality, Norway.
• Borg Bryggerier — a Norwegian brewery
• Borg — a synthetic cloth or fabric made by the Borg textile corporation of Georgia
• Borg — an automated player in the game Angband.
• A fictional race in Gotcha Force.
• "The Borg" — a nickname for Microsoft Corporation, a reference to the Star Trek aliens, alluding to the common criticisms of Microsoft
• Borg — "Bundesoberstufenrealgymnasium" - Austrian name for state-run high schools focussed on technical education.
• Borg — a person who wears a Bluetooth enabled telephone headset, especially when not in use (a reference to the Star Trek aliens who generally have electronic devices on their heads)

[edit] See also

• Bourg