Re: Two questions about Esperanto

Paul Bennett wrote:

> On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 16:13:07 -0400, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
> wrote:
>
>> RB> As they say in the north of England: "There's nowt so queer as
>> folk".
>>
>> Dumb question: how do you pronounce <nowt>?  /naUt/?
>
>
> I'll (attempt to) head off YAEPT here, by suggesting you use the same
> diphthong as in 'now', whatever that may be in your own lect. AFAIK, that
> should make you understood, should you ever need to use the word.
> Provided
> of course that you collocutors internal lexicon contains the word 'nowt'
> itself, which I shall leave up to the reader to judge on a case-by-case
> basis.
>

It is, incidentally, as opposed to 'owt'.  I believe they're dialectal
variants of 'naught' and 'aught', respectively.