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.)