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In terms of date, what does ought mean?
Like in the statement, “back in ought nine”.
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Yes, the others were correct – my old mother (from the north-west of England) always used it, and she thought zero was a silly word.
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It’s a way of saying zero.
Some people are calling this decade the Aughts (ought is a different word entirely), as calling it the Zeros sounds weird.
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1909
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it means 0
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“ought” (also, variously aught, nought, naught) simply means “oh” or “zero”.
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’09
Another way of saying zero.
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it’s zero, zero nine.
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