Names for the number 0 in English when the rifle caliber .30-06 Springfield (introduced in 1906) is accordingly referred to by the name "thirty-aught-six". The words "nought" and "naught" are spelling variants. They are, according to H. W. Fowler, not a modern accident as might be thought, but have descended that way from Old English. There is a distinction in British English between the two, but it is not one that is universally recognized. This distinction is that "nought" is primarily used in a literal arithmetic sense, where the number 0 is straightforwardly meant, whereas "naught" is used in poetical and rhetorical senses, where "nothing" could equally
Man (word) Romanian, where ' refers to a 'human', vs. " (male). The inflected forms of Old English " are: The inflected forms of Old High German word for "man" (without i-mutation) are: The inflected forms of the Old Norse word for man, "maðr", are: The word "man" is still used in its generic meaning in literary English. The verb "to man" (i.e. "to furnish [a fortress or a ship] with a company of men") dates to early Middle English. The word has been applied generally as a suffix in modern combinations like "fireman", "policeman" and "mailman". With social changes in the