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

No one I have ever known has used 'nil' in normal parlance.

Patrick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
To: "Patrick Ryan" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 10:16 PM
Subject: Re[6]: [tied] Laryngeal Reduction - Rule-1: -CHCC- > -CCC-


> 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
>
>
>