Twain Harte, California Twain Harte, California Twain Harte is a census-designated place (CDP) in Tuolumne County, California, United States. The population was 2,226 at the 2010 census, down from 2,586 at the 2000 census. Its name is derived from the last names of two famous authors who lived in California, Mark Twain and Bret Harte. Twain Harte is located at (38.040390, -120.233671). Twain Harte is situated in Tuolumne County along Highway 108 at an elevation of . The USPS zip code for Twain Harte is 95383. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , of which,
Names for the number 0 in English "a nought" and "a naught" have been misheard as "an ought" and "an aught". Samuel Johnson thought that since "aught" was generally used for "anything" in preference to "ought", so also "naught" should be used for "nothing" in preference to "nought". However, he observed that "custom has irreversibly prevailed in using 'naught' for 'bad' and 'nought' for 'nothing'". Whilst this distinction existed in his time, in modern English, as observed by Fowler and The Reader's Digest above, it does not exist today. However, the sense of "naught" meaning "bad" is still preserved in the word "naughty", which is simply the