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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Football score

How do you say out the cardinal number ‘0’ in the following football match result?

Tiger Club – 0 ; Lion Club – 1

Choose one answer.

a. Tiger Club nought, Lion Club one.

b. Tiger Club love, Lion Club one.

c. Tiger Club nil, Lion Club one.

d. Tiger Club zero, Lion Club one.

Is C the correct answer?
  

Top answer

I say 'zero', but there is no single correct answer. All of those are in use (except perhaps for 'love', which is restricted to tennis where I come from), as well as 'Lions one, Tigers nothing ' and 'Lions one, Tigers 'oh' . )

— Mister Micawber

  • I say 'zero', but there is no single correct answer.
  • All of those are in use (except perhaps for 'love', which is restricted to tennis where I come from), as well as 'Lions one, Tigers nothing ' and 'Lions one, Tigers 'oh' .
  • )
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I say 'zero', but there is no single correct answer. All of those are in use (except perhaps for 'love', which is restricted to tennis where I come from), as well as 'Lions one, Tigers nothing' and 'Lions one, Tigers 'oh'. (Notice that we usually say the higher score first.)
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