I have really had it with "nil"

[Oz]

My final take, then I'm out. If you wanna use "nil" to denote nothing or zero, that's fine. But my reporters ain't getting it into their copy.

In that case, "nil" wouldn't fly for me. On TV, it's just fine. I agree, not in print.

 

[bigpern23]

I would never use nil in print. Winning 1-nil just looks wrong. But it's perfectly fine to say it on TV.

I know some die-hard soccer fans and they get annoyed if they hear an American broadcaster say "One to nothing" instead of "One, nil." Saying "One, nil" doesn't prove you know anything about soccer to them, but saying "One to nothing" proves you don't.

Tie and draw I think are interchangeable. I guess I usually say "match" when referring to international soccer, but as I think about it, I'm pretty sure I usually write "game" when referring to high school soccer. I'm not at all consistent on that front.

 

[da man]

I know some die-hard soccer fans and they get annoyed if they hear an American broadcaster say "One to nothing" instead of "One, nil." Saying "One, nil" doesn't prove you know anything about soccer to them, but saying "One to nothing" proves you don't.

Sounds like you know some annoying elitists.

 

[bigpern23]

I know some die-hard soccer fans and they get annoyed if they hear an American broadcaster say "One to nothing" instead of "One, nil." Saying "One, nil" doesn't prove you know anything about soccer to them, but saying "One to nothing" proves you don't.

Sounds like you know some annoying elitists.

Not really. If you were listening to a british broadcast of the World Baseball Classic (just as an example ... I know no one watched it, much less in Britain) and the announcer breathlessly shouted in his best Cockney accent, "And David Ortiz belts a four-run homer!" wouldn't you assume he knows nothing about baseball?

 

[Songbird]

Speaking of nil ... wait till Johnny Pimples is the first 7th-grader to sign an NIL deal.

 

[DanOregon]

I realize MLS announcers are trying to be purists, but all of the talk of "pace," "pitch" and "kits," and other soccer jargon barrowed from Europe is baffling to me.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Ohio high schools just rejected it.

 

[Liut]

Do soccer teams that lose "fall" or "fell" like other sports teams?

 

[PCLoadLetter]

I realize MLS announcers are trying to be purists, but all of the talk of "pace," "pitch" and "kits," and other soccer jargon barrowed from Europe is baffling to me.

I hate it when baseball announcers use made-up bull**** like "innings."

 

[SFIND]

Ohio high schools just rejected it.

Yet it will likely be here in a matter of months anyway.

https://www.wcpo.com/sports/high-sc...s-landscape?utm_source=ocn&utm_medium=website

 

[spikechiquet]

While we are at it ... can we talk about how "time and space" are the same friggin' thing?! If you have time to shoot, you have the space to do it. If you have the space, you have time to shoot it.

 

[TigerVols]

“I’ve really had it with nil”

Was this thread started by Saban?

 

[DanOregon]

 

[User 149557]

“I’ve really had it with nil”

Was this thread started by Saban?

A reminder that 2006 was another time altogether.

 

[dixiehack]

The mark of a truly talented spades player is the ability to go nil.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

The mark of a truly talented spades player is the ability to go nil.

Nil or blind nil?

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Boston.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

Nil or blind nil?

Nil. Too much luck involved with blind nil.

 

[jr/shotglass]

I have really had it with having really had it with nil.

 

[BTExpress]

Nil spelled backward is . . .