Hello John,
Neat explaination..
Wishing all Good Holidays..
Bob C.
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From: "John R. Carpenter" <jrcrin001(a)cox.net>
To: "Carpenter Rootsweb" <CARPENTER(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 2:05 AM
Subject: Re: [CARPENTER] nought ought not be a double NA naught,nor a aught
by size or a knot by nautical speed or tied into a knot
Hello,
Just for fun ...
Jethro Bowdine of the Beverly Hillbillies 1960’s TV and the later movie
version used the turn of the twentieth century term ‘naught’ in a
deliberate grammatical error of ‘nought.’ FYI - Jethro was not the first
on TV or the movies to use this deliberate error. It was used to define an
older style, backwards type character with a mistaken grasp of proper
English.
‘Naught’ for Jethro was a running character verbal joke that ‘ought’ to
have been ‘nought’ – which made him a nothing, by the wrong division of a
‘nought.’
See the dictionary definitions below to better understand the word play.
Today, with the continued massacre of the Queen’s English, the parody even
in proper American English is often lost to the masses. But, you good
ISOGG readers now know it was a parody! :-)
For example, Jethro wanted to be a double-naught spy – a humorous
characterization of the ‘007’ James Bond character. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beverly_Hillbillies#Jethro_Bodine
This has led to a series of ‘double-naught’ parodies using the
‘double-naught’ name. And the word ‘naught’ is now considered a North
American slang term for nought. Try a Google search for it to see what I
mean. And also see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nought
In 1900, that year was sometimes referred to as the ‘double-nought year.’
That quickly became corrupted to be pronounced as ‘ought.’ The year 1903
was often referred and pronounced as ‘ought-three’ but written as ‘03.
Another example is the M1903 US rifle that was referred to as the
‘ought-three.’ See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1903_Springfield#Adoption
‘Noughts and crosses’ was an early name for tic-tac-toe. This game is
still referred to its earlier name in the UK. But Americans dropped the
‘archaic’ English terms for the more common American name. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic-tac-toe And it should not be confused
with the novel by a similar name. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noughts_%26_Crosses_(novel_series) – even
though the Xs and 0s abound.
To make things more interesting, shotgun shell companies in the United
States, in contrast to the UK system of ‘S.G. cartridges’ (S. G. = small
game – not shot gun), uses the term ‘aught’ a deliberate variant of
‘nought’ to define buck shot size. The most common is ‘double-aught buck’
written ‘00 buck’ refers to the size and not a double zero. But, this does
not stop people from using ‘aught’ instead of ‘nought!’
So, if A00 aka "A-Double-Knot" is A-double-zero then it can be called
properly ‘A-double-nought.’
Remember, nought ought not be a double North American naught, nor a aught
by size or a knot by nautical speed or tied into a knot. ;-}
John R. Carpenter
La Mesa, CA
Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA Project
http://carpentercousins.com/carpdna.htm
Oxford University Press, Concise Oxford Dictionary, 10th Edition reports;
naught
· pron. archaic nothing.
· n. N. Amer. variant spelling of nought.
– PHRASES come to naught be ruined or foiled. set at naught archaic
disregard; despise.
– ORIGIN OE nQwiht, -wuht, from nQ ‘no’ + wiht ‘thing’ (see wight).
nought
· n. the digit 0.
· pron. variant spelling of naught.
ought1
· modal v. (3rd sing. present and past ought)
1 used to indicate duty or correctness. Ø used to indicate a desirable or
expected state. Ø used to give or ask advice.
2 used to indicate something that is probable.
– ORIGIN OE Qhte, past tense of Qgan ‘owe’ (see owe).
ought2 (also aught)
· n. archaic term for nought.
– ORIGIN C19: perh. from an ought, by wrong division of a nought.
ought3
· pron. variant spelling of aught1.
aught1 /O;t/ (also ought)
· pron. archaic anything at all.
– ORIGIN OE Qwiht (see aye2, wight).
aught2
· n. variant spelling of ought2.
Aught
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun_shell#Buckshot
Buckshot size is designated actual diameter or (traditionally) by number,
with smaller numbers being larger shot; sizes larger than "0"
("aught")
are designated by multiple zeros. "00" ("double-aught") is the most
commonly used size.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun#Shot
For buckshot the numbers usually start at 4 (6.1 mm, 0.24 in) and go down
to 1, 0, 00 ("double ought"), 000, and finally 0000 (9.7 mm, .38 in).
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