Gajillian

[Jonathan Lighter]

Cf. "gazillion," "kazillion," and my personal favorite, "godzillion."

JL


On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Saw the following in the NYTimes today:
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> "I get calls from people sometimes, and I don't return them," Ms. Buono
> said mischievously. "I got a call from Maggie Hassan after the election.
> She is the governor of New Hampshire. We had tried to get her in a
> gajillian times and she wouldn't."
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> The word is properly "gajillion", but this is the NYTimes, so I thought it
> worthy of mention. FYI, "gajillian" has 6,450 ghits; "gajillion" has 301k.
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> DanG
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