The word "nowt" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an informal northern English dialect word, originating from Yorkshire, meaning nothing or none. You can use it in informal contexts and in spoken language, but it should not be used in formal writing. For example: "I'm afraid we haven't got nowt left in the fridge."
This poll shows that all Cameron's efforts – lacklustre though they may be – to improve his standing among women, have come to nowt.
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A stranger calling at a local pub received a sceptical welcome: "Whatever you want," he was told, "we ain't got nowt".
While once chatting with a young Jack Straw, Harrison, a bluff Yorkshireman, grabbed the future foreign secretary's testicles and when Mr Straw, gasping, asked the reason why, the whip snarled, "Nowt.
Kids who go beyond accent and use dialectal or nonstandard forms ain't, gizzit, nowt double negatives are politely told with the best wishes that Standard English is crucial to climbing the economic ladder.
"The Tories have done nowt for anybody," shoots back an old lady, suddenly defensive, when asked why she supports him.
It costs nowt to dream, you know, however long the shot.
A pallid English blues pianist, rolling and tumbling through a suite of originals and covers (including Rihanna's "Disturbia"), multitracking his voice like a Dorset Beach Boy on a deserted pierhead with nowt but drums and New Orleans horns for company.
But there's more than nowt going on 100 metres away from the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Frank Gehry's metal-sheathed masterpiece.
Which would be fine – there's nowt wrong with Kate Nash.
After the debacle of the pitch in Nottingham last year when the match between England and India moved along at funereal pace on a surface that offered nowt to anyone, this is bound to be different.
