Date:    Tue, 16 Jun 1998 07:51:10 -0400
<br>From:    Avi Arditti <Avi_Arditti[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]NEB.VOA.GOV>
<br>Subject: Re: gazillion
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<br>Andrea Vine, Larry Horn, et al --
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<br>Intuition kept saying: :Spell it 9gazillion9; it just feels right, I don9t know why.:
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<br>Then Reason hit the delete key: :No, fool, that is pronounced 9g /ah/ zillion.9:
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<br>Dash that eternal conflict...thanks for setting me straight.  Perhaps gazillion will squeeze itself between :gazer: and :gazongas: in the next HDAS.  Meanwhile, I am off to ask some folks on the street just how much a gazillion is.
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<br>Sad that people don9t use 9googol.9 It9s such a fun existing word.
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<br>Andrea: yes, we still use Xerox Globalview (how did you know?) -- but not for much longer.  As we speak, crews are preparing to replace our 52-language word processing system with a WindowsNT-based system.
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<br>Avi
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