Monthly Archives: March 2025

I went to church yesterday (Ash Wednesday.) It was raining and just a crummy day, but there were more people in church than I’d seen in a long time. The lines were fairly long to get the ashes and for … Continue reading →

Yesterday I talked about using the word “aught” to mean “zero.” I probably should have also mentioned that although most people that I knew used the word aught, some said the word “naught.” The dictionary says that naught means “nothing,” … Continue reading →

We were having a conversation the other day and a guy said something like, well that’s not the way we did it back in aught four. I hadn’t heard “aught” used as a number in a long time, but when … Continue reading →