More on "Googol" and "Googolplex"

[Mark Mandel]

Yeah, but ISTM that that'd be (at least understood as) an emphatic version
of "gob", which justifies the 2ndary stress.
Mark Mandel


On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 2:09 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> Fred Shapiro notes:
>
> "Merriam-Webster dictionaries pronounce googol with a secondary stress
> on the second syllable."
>
> FWIW, there's a word in BE that I would spell _googob_, which likewise
> has secondary stress on the second syllable and which has the meaning,
> "a very large number of count nouns or a very large amount of a mass
> noun." A googob of a near-coincidence.
>
> -Wilson
>
>

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