To: Luke Skyfreeper
"Kewl. But I still think it's kind of funny."
I'm not good at deadpan (looking serious), even when others can't see my face. ...was reminded of the Jethro Bodine character in the Beverly Hillbillies in his "double-naught spy" act and laughed myself silly. "Naught" was once used to express "zero" in the Ozarks ('50s and before).
20 posted on
01/23/2006 3:48:24 PM PST by
familyop
("Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." --President Bush)
To: familyop
"Naught" was once used to express "zero" in the Ozarks ('50s and before). It's Elizabethan English, and is current on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, as well as other enclaves of dialect surviving the schools of today.
25 posted on
01/23/2006 3:52:09 PM PST by
Fatuncle
(Were I not ignorant, I would not be here to learn things from you.)
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