nowt

Nobody but Frances noticed, and she sat, like the wise monkey, 'sayin' nowt'.

"Shouldn't they be shooting at us by nowT' the weapons of- ficer asked.

"Can you stand up nowT' 4e asked.

"What've you been doing nowT' she demanded.

"The club doormen promised me 'Nowt gets past us' - but my huge foam, multi-coloured mallet did.

As they say in Yorkshire, 'Tha gets owt fer nowt' and many clients will still prefer to negotiate on fees.

Carlot demanded, "Scientist, what's the point in stop- ping nowT' Jeffer laughed.

The first revival rushcart was dismissed by one old-timer as 'nowt [nothing] like a rushcart'.

IN THE words of Jimmy Airlie, a fiery Scotsman and a senior union negotiator at Ford, 'you don't get owt for nowt'.

The Mancunian accent is less dialect heavy than neighbouring Lancashire and Cheshire accents, although words such as 'Owt' (meaning 'anything') and 'Nowt' (meaning 'nothing') remain part of the Mancunian vocabulary.

I would have expected 'don't get owt for nowt', but perhaps times have got even harder recently and you even need to pay owt to get your hands on some nowt.