I give you the Box-Scavenger's Creed:
Is there aught that can protect a dumpster from your depradations?
There is naught.
If there are how many boxes in it will a dumpster be spared?
If there are nought.
Are there any more homophones remaining?
There are not.
In Yorkshire they say "nowt". Which is not to be confused with "summat".
Posted by: ac | July 23, 2005 at 08:57 PM
For "naught" or "nought"? I guess it doesn't make much mind since the one's a variant of the other. In fact, forget I posted this.
Posted by: ben wolfson | July 23, 2005 at 09:12 PM
I cannot; it is stamped on my memory forever.
Posted by: ac | July 23, 2005 at 09:38 PM
You seem to have left one knot still untied.
Posted by: eb | July 23, 2005 at 11:42 PM
Damn!
Posted by: ben wolfson | July 24, 2005 at 06:58 AM
Dude, it's only the Californian lacunae in your vowel space that lead you to the misapprehension that "nought" and "not" are homophones.
Posted by: tammy | July 24, 2005 at 07:25 PM
Surely you don't maintain that it ought to be pronounced "nowt" in General USAian.
Posted by: ben wolfson | July 24, 2005 at 07:31 PM
Not "nowt" [nawt], but with that backwards c in IPA, which I don't know how to reproduce here. Rhymes with "caught," both to me and to you.
Posted by: tammy | July 25, 2005 at 10:21 AM
Hmm... I'm not sure if I think "not" and "caught" rhyme. Anyway, it makes sense that I'd have lacunae in my speech, since I did grow up in the same county as Lacuna Beach.
Posted by: ben wolfson | July 25, 2005 at 11:04 AM
Ah yes, Lacuna Beach—the epicenter of the one-vowel accent.
Posted by: tammy | July 25, 2005 at 12:55 PM
Also, you have to be careful where you step there. Sometimes there's just pieces of ground missing.
Posted by: tammy | July 25, 2005 at 12:56 PM
You also have to be careful where you look, as there are plenty of blue-hairs wearing incunabular swimming suits.
Posted by: ben wolfson | July 25, 2005 at 01:07 PM