Our conversation about rebuses and grammagrams prompted several listeners to note that people in scientific fields sometimes use the letters NRG as a stand-in for the word energy. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “NRG Grammagram”
We talked a couple of weeks ago about gramograms. Those are letters that have meaning because you sound them out. We got that letter from the guy, oh yeah, sure, who makes wine, and they put the letters MT on vats that are empty.
Yes, and we were wondering if that occurred in other fields.
And we heard from Angela Frank in Petaluma, California, and Jessica in the Florida Panhandle, who both pointed out that when they were in school in physics class, they would use NRG for energy.
Yeah, and it’s funny.
I didn’t think of that at the time we did the call, but there’s a bank called the MNT Bank, which I think is hilarious.
MNT?
So they have an ampersand between the M and the T, but it still looks kind of like Empty Bank. I’m sure they know this, but still.
I hope they know that.
Yeah, they better make that ampersand really big.
