Re[6]: [tied] Laryngeal Reduction - Rule-1: -CHCC- > -CCC-

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 55098
Date: 2008-03-13

At 10:59:05 PM on Wednesday, March 12, 2008, Patrick Ryan
wrote:

> 'Nil' is a Briticism for American English 'zero'.

Only in the context of football scores and the like;
otherwise it's a perfectly ordinary English word. (And
with an older OED citation than <zero>, ~1550 to 1604.)

Brian