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COUME Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary

Zero/nought : Can they be used indifferently?

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00I notice on some websites that people use Nought to say 0. 02br
00Until now, I never ever encounter Nought and I always used Zero. 02br
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00Are Nought and Zero the same? Can they be used indifferently? 02br
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00Thanks in advance 02br
00Ludo 0-
  

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0 Hello Ludo, I think you mean "interchangably", not "indifferently" 02br 02br 00But yes, they can be used interchangably. 050010id1

  • 0 Hello Ludo, I think you mean "interchangably", not "indifferently" 02br 02br 00But yes, they can be used interchangably.
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0 Hello Ludo, I think you mean "interchangably", not "indifferently" 02br
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00But yes, they can be used interchangably. 050010id1
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0 Thank you for the answer abbie and for correcting my vocabulary! 02br
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00I can't wait to move to London in 9 days, to start practicing my English again... 02br
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00Ludo 0-
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0hey Ludo - going to London! have a good time. 050010id1
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0 Hi Ludo, 02br
00I just looked the word "nought" in the dictionary, it was written mainly British, and zero is used in America. 02br
00Cheers, 0-
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0 Sometimes we say 'oh' , especially for phone numbers 02br
00eg 444-5034 is four four four five oh three four. 02br
00Clive 0-
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0 Is it true that what we (in the U.S.) call tic-tac-toe is called "noughts and crosses" in England, or is that something else entirely? 0-
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0 Yes, it's true. 02br
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00Another aspect is that in N. America, zero can be used in a non-numerative way. 02br
00eg He has zero personality. 02br
00 He's a complete zero. 02br
00 I had zero success. 02br
00I doubt that can be done with nought? 02br
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00Clive 0-
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0 Hi khoff, 02br
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00We do have a game called noughts and crosses, played on a simple 9-box grid; the object is to defeat the other player by getting a row of noughts (or crosses) vertically, horizontally or diagonally. Is that tic tac toe? 0-
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0 Quiet interestingly, Abbie, do you now what we call that game in Persian? O-X ! Just the name of the alphabet letters. It's really strange, isn't it? 0-
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0 So we all play the same games, and use the same idioms. More similarities than differences, it appears! 0-

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