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Do you still say 'fife' and 'niner' as well?
Nought , Zero or Oh ?
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You realise you just typed a zero there and the word "zero" there then said you use a mixture of them? Did you mean to type O?
It is a bit bad how they're right next to each other on the keyboard tbh...
Caporegime
How about suggestions on mixing it up a bit?
nothing eight nothing nothing five
null eight null null five
nil eight nil nil five
zilch eight zilch zilch five
nothing eight nothing nothing five
null eight null null five
nil eight nil nil five
zilch eight zilch zilch five
I think it's just mixing up 0s and Os
I mean I've heard Os being used with telephone numbers for years, like that was standard when giving out an area code when I was a kid etc... thing is that was in the early days of the internet and back when computers at home were basically the 8 bit micros then later Atari/Amiga that kids played with and maybe a big machine in the study that some dads used for some clunky spreadsheet and a word processor etc.. I guess back then people didn't have many situations where they'd mix up O and 0... a telephone number was just digits and so who cares.
These days though it's like "Oh, could I use the wi-fi" "sure the password is 79h0iz..." and suddenly the difference between "Oh" and "Zero" is important.
Soldato
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Did you never play noughts and crosses ?
Soldato
Not really words I would generally use, but as a Northerner, I would say;
Owt = Anything
Nowt = Nothing
Not number related though.
Man of Honour
When I say it isn't in my vocabulary, I mean I never use the word in everyday speech. I didn't think I had to explain I know the meaning of the word, and yes, I have played it
I'm far too thick to speak another language. Although I'd love to.
The trouble is.... everyone speaks English already
Well you asked for it Foxy, you put nein for nine!
With my ancestry, I find French a piece of cake, but I only have ein bisschen German.
My German daughter-in-law says that as she finds it easy to do The Times crossword, and I apparently have acquired a decent accent, I should apply myself more to learning the language.
She says all this in impeccable English, so it hardly spurs me on to try.
Ich kann nur ein oder zwei hundert worten (auf Deutsch), nicht mehr. Ich bin dummkopf
Aber Ich verstehe "nein", lol And my grammar sucks
Unless you have private schooling/tuition, most schools in this country only start teaching a foreign language at 11+. Looking at other European nations that's far, far too late. The people who I know who are really fluent either went and lived in abroad, or had private schooling, or both.
But then I keep reminding myself that, as a hermit, it really doesn't help me to speak more languages
Man of Honour
I almost always use "zero" because, well, it's zero. For no reason I know of, I will use O in two circumstances - the first digit of a phone number and Hawaii Five-0.
Ich kann nur ein oder zwei hundert worten (auf Deutsch), nicht mehr. Ich bin dummkopf
And my grammar sucks
Unless you have private schooling/tuition, most schools in this country only start teaching a foreign language at 11+. Looking at other European nations that's far, far too late. The people who I know who are really fluent either went and lived in abroad, or had private schooling, or both.
But then I keep reminding myself that, as a hermit, it really doesn't help me to speak more languages
Très drôle Foxy, if you’ll accept the language switch.
O/T but possibly amusing, my German grandsons started to learn English at school when they were eight.
The eldest brought a note home from his teacher, to my German daughter-in-law, who thought, ‘Christ, what’s he done?”
Teacher said, “I was teaching the kids verbs, I am, you are, he is etc., when I got to the negatives, I am not, you are not, he/she is not, your son raised his hand, and said, mein Opa, (my grandad), says I ain’t.”
She said, “I told him that his Opa was wrong, and he said, no, you’re wrong Miss, mein Opa is a Black Cab driver in London, he said that they know everything.”
Caporegime
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