What is said of this new version of naught? What happens if we make a duplicate of same word?
Has “aught” been a common term since
- the beginning? The answer
was in 10 replies I am afraid of bbc TV has put me in a bit of a muddle? Programming for modern times seem to use “nowt” most often to mean “nothing more, whereas programs set in Victorian and earlier periods say “naught” (pronounced like “not”)? In periods between, usage of the word seems less frequent.
What is nowt and is it just a slang or an accepted dialect?
On the topic of the terrorism, I’m sharing my new book The Road with the Thrills of Summer..
As in the informal saying (BE), There’s nowt so queer as folk. Is that true?
Cambridge Dictionary: Said to emphasize that people sometimes behave in a very strange way.
British people use this phrase (identified with language usage in the north of England) which might be considered by some to be a little archaic nowadays. Why is period time played frequently on tv and in old British movies. I see a similarity between the expression queer and homosexuality in context. I don’t see the other way around. I feel like I get “slim” as a pejorative term for gay people or
gay people directly.
As in the informal saying (BE), There’s nowt so queer as folk. Is that true?
Cambridge Dictionary: Said to emphasize that people sometimes behave in a very strange way.
British people use this phrase (identified with language usage in the north of England) which might be considered by some to be a little archaic nowadays. Why is period time played frequently on tv and in old British movies. I see a similarity between the expression queer and homosexuality in context. I don’t see the other way around. I feel like I get “slim” as a pejorative term for gay people or
gay people directly.
Why did Yorkshire people keep learning Northern English?
Heard of Brand “Bread wi’ Nowt Taken Out” in store.
Which bread is best?
The dialect was the Northern dialect of the people of Northern England. The nowt spelling is from the North of England or further further. Who is referring to the current spelling you find earlier? According to Wikidiction, naught means nothing other than nought etc. So all signs and letters do match it. (*) and pronounced /nat/, have been around since Middle English & Modern English.
Nowt ( Uncountable) (
Northern England, Sussex ) Naught, nothing.
In a Geordie Proverb, shy bairns get nowt.
‘Nowt’ is pretty widespread. It’s certainly part of Lincolnshire dialect (see under N of course), which takes it as far south as The Wash. Where is Derbyshire and Leicestershire? Could you get it further south than Leicestershire?
I cannot see myself to become an absolute perfectionist.
