More about gainsay

• First recorded between 1250–1300.
• From the Middle English word gainsaien, literally “say against.” See again, say¹.

EXAMPLES OF GAINSAY

• No one could gainsay the evidence presented at the trial.
• It’s hard to gainsay the fact that technology has drastically changed our lives.

More about googol

• First recorded in 1935–40.
• Introduced by U.S. mathematician Edward Kasner (1878–1955), whose nine-year-old nephew allegedly invented it.
• Inspiration for the famous Google search engine.

EXAMPLES OF GOOGOL

• The concept of a googol stretches the limits of human imagination, illustrating the vastness of numbers.
• She joked that it would take a googol of years to finish all the chores on her list.

More about forsooth

• From Middle English forsothe, <Old English forsōth. See for, sooth.
• The original sense of “in truth, in fact” without an element of derision or irony is obsolete.

EXAMPLES OF FORSOOTH

• Here’s an original usage example from Othello, Act 1, Scene 1:

Forsooth, a great arithmetician,
One Michael Cassio, a Florentine

• Here’s a modern-day, humorous example:

“Forsooth, I should be so lucky to find a parking spot on a Friday night!”