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
Word Is Out (song) Word Is Out (song) "Word Is Out" is a song written by English duo Stock and Waterman for Kylie Minogue's fourth album "Let's Get to It" (1991). Produced by Mike Stock and Pete Waterman, it was released as the first single from Minogue's album "Let's Get to It". The artwork for the cover was photographed by Ellen Von Unwerth in 1991 for the British edition of "Esquire". On Michael Wilton's review of the second night of her Anti Tour in Sydney, Australia—where she performed an a cappella rendition of the song—for musicOMH, he stated "Word is Out" is "wildly underrated."