Re: [Fwd: dozenal and hexadecimal digits]
From: | Kristian Jensen <kljensen@...> |
Date: | Saturday, May 13, 2000, 19:09 |
John Cowan wrote:
>Raymond Brown scripsit:
>
>> I never coined words for 12^3 (a dozen gross), but Wells' "dozand" _looks_
>> attractive; however, would it _sound_ different enough from 'dozen"?
>
>I was thinking that "douzand" would be better.
What about stress differences? E.g., DOzen vs. doZAND. Wouldn't that make
them sound different enough? What did Wells say about stress anyways?
-kristian- 8)