May 16, 2008

Aught

aught



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n. (名詞 noun)[U]

          1.    【古】任何事物,任何一部分
          2.    零;無物
                      read .01 as point aught one
                      把.01讀作點零一

ad. (副詞 adverb)

          1.    【古】在任何程度上,根本
                      He doesn't care aught for that.
                      他一點也不喜歡那個。


Dictionary.com

–noun 
1. anything whatever; any part: for aught I know.  

–adverb
 2. Archaic. in any degree; at all; in any respect.  


The Columbia Guide to Standard American English

aught (pron., n., adv.)   
 
The pronoun is archaic except in the idiomatic for aught I know and similar uses; 

as a noun, it still means "zero" and stems from the faulty division of the words a naught into an aught; as an adverb aught is archaic (if in fact it isn’t a noun in this use): I don’t care aught for her now

Don’t confuse it with its homophone, the auxiliary ought. 


speed_racer 
I hate to sound like an old man 'kids these days!' type but I'm so nostalgic for the early aughts. And that was not long ago. I long for Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings or Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon when I watch action flicks.


see nought








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