Date:  Tue, 28 Nov 1995 08:17:38 -0500

From:  "Joan C. Cook" <cookj[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GUSUN.ACC.GEORGETOWN.EDU>

Subject: Re: Zero or "o"?



On Mon, 27 Nov 1995, Larry Horn wrote:



> In sports scores, for instance, the

> losing score is "nothing" (never "oh" and rarely "zero") if it's baseball



And the batting count is always "oh": oh and 3 or 2 and oh.



--Joan



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Joan C. Cook                       Imagination is

Department of Linguistics                more important

Georgetown University                  than knowledge.

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