The word 'zilch' is correct and usable in written English.
It means 'nothing' or 'zero' and can be used to express a lack of something or when something doesn't exist. For example, "After searching for hours, I found zilch."
McGowan said that interactions between the two rival campaigns had become "tense" in the days leading up to the poll but insisted that her level of collaboration with unions or other parties was "zilch".
Can it really be true that Mike Leigh's Mr Turner has been overlooked in the best film and best director categories, with another zilch for Timothy Spall as best actor?
And how much sympathy did he get from us? Zilch.
Now its book value has been reduced by its present owners to nil – nothing, nada, zilch.
But most have to scrape by on "zilch" or, at most, on a fraction of what is taken for granted in the for-profit world.
The principal lesson from Disney appears to be that, with someone as clever and overbearing as Mr Eisner at the top, the most brilliantly designed governance rules in the world can sometimes mean zilch.
Shareholders are subordinate to bondholders, so equity owners would have gotten zilch.
ALL this could change in an instant, but so far the media organisations trawling Sarah Palin's email trove for some fatal "gotcha" have come up with zilch.
But the utility of the product would be zilch, and I would be keeping those 10,000 people from doing AIDS research, or teaching, or nursing.
Contrast this transparent procedure with the part shareholders play when companies make donations to the Tory (or any other) party: zilch.
In actuality, the number of people attending the Chelsea Flower Show who care about the London Season is probably pretty close to zilch, I reckon.
