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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
When my son was born some 30-odd years ago 'google' was a spelled with a lower case 'g' and was part of his first vocabulary. Today we spell it with a capital 'G,' use it as a verb, and everyone knows what that means.
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I assume you're talking about
googol, the number denoted by 1 followed by 100 zeroes. Google is "mispelled" for trademark protection.
Returning to "I could care less," I suspect it has less to do with irony or ignorance and more to do with meter. "I could care less" rolls off the tongue more fluidly than "I couldn't care less," especially when uttered impatiently.