"Nil all"

[Live by the sea]

I’ve personally never heard of nil all .

 

[papachris]

Who can be arsed to say Zero Zero?

Psychopaths that's who.

People whose first language isn't English. I live with one

 

[andy1980]

I thought nil all was american, I have also noticed roster is creeping in more and more.

 

[Questions]

So f*** all is the new nil nil then ?

So over to Selhurst where it’s still f*** all.

 

[Questions]

and welcome to the English Premeeeer during the regular round robin series.

 

[Me and my Monkey]

Everybody knows it’s nil-nil and you can’t trust anybody who says different.

On a side note the Americans use the word ‘winningest’ and it really gets to me. I’m glad I got that out on a public forum

But what does winningest mean? And is there a losingest? Or even a drawingest?

 

[Van Cleef]

But what does winningest mean? And is there a losingest? Or even a drawingest?

Probably.

Bloody Americans.

 

[Triggaaar]

I have also noticed roster is creeping in more and more.

These sort of viruses need to be stamped out as soon as it's first heard, before they spread.

 

[sully]

Just voted, didn't look at the date, scrolled down saw Lord Bracknell, made me jump!!

I did exactly the same!

Due to matched betting activities, I find myself using the term “bore draw” more than I should. Thanks Denise.


It’s nil nil, though.

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

A 19 year old thread bounce is pretty impressive!

 

[thejackal]

I think of "nil all" as being a tell-tale sign of someone not really being a football person.

This

 

[thejackal]

A 19 year old thread bounce is pretty impressive!

And pretty amazing that the poll's still open!

 

[Triggaaar]

Nil all freaks.

(Just been alerted to this thread by a report which suggests NSC ranks number 1 in Google for the term "nil all".

You're winning the internet

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

These sort of viruses need to be stamped out as soon as it's first heard, before they spread.

Trouble is we are now living with the Youtube/Tik Tok generation. I notice creeping Americanisms all the time. One is the expression of disgust, 'eeoo' instead of the British 'Eurgh', Ladybug instead of Ladybird, Laboratory and inventory mispronounced and so on and so forth. Really irritates me when I am teaching classes and pedant that I am, I almost always correct them. The kids are bemused and do not understand.

 

[Bozza]

This thread also does well in Google:

O/T Snowboarding (sexually related!!))

Congratulations to @Easy 10 who seems to have the internet's official definition of what the terms means.

 

[GT49er]

And pretty amazing that the poll's still open!

Was the poll there in 2004 though? I first saw this thread when it came up on the front page yesterday, and I didn't notice a poll - has that been added after the thread was bounced (and why was it bounced)??

Team nil-nil, BTW.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Not sure whether a result of previously living Stateside, but I pronounce 'paracetamol' as para-setur-mol rather than paraseetamol.

'Film' has practically died a death in Blighty. Been almost wholly replaced by 'movie'

As you were.

 

[thejackal]

Was the poll there in 2004 though? I first saw this thread when it came up on the front page yesterday, and I didn't notice a poll - has that been added after the thread was bounced (and why was it bounced)??

Team nil-nil, BTW.

Yeah sounds right. Who's the bouncer?!

 

[jonny.rainbow]

Don’t Americans say ‘zip’ instead of ‘nil’?

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

For a cockney it’s Neal, Neal.
If you ask them to say Neal, Neal you’ll get Nil, Nil.