2020-11-21
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด O – Ought & aught
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Dictionary.com
ออกเสียง Ought = ‘AWT’
ออกเสียง aught = ‘AWKHT’
Abused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary Embree
Aught =
anything whatever; any part: for aught I know; a cipher; zero
Not to be confused with:
naught – nothing; be without result: come to naught; lost; ruined
ought – should; duty or obligation: You ought to go to the memorial service.
Dictionary.com
USAGE NOTE FOR OUGHT
Ought forms its negative in a number of ways.
Ought not occurs in all types of speech and writing and is fully standard:
The conferees ought not to waste time on protocol.
Oughtn't, largely a spoken form,
is found mainly in the Midland and Southern dialects of the United States,
where it is almost the universal form.
Hadn't ought is a common spoken form in the Northern dialect area.
It is sometimes condemned in usage guides
and is uncommon in educated speech
except of the most informal variety.
Didn't ought and shouldn't ought are considered nonstandard.
Both positive and negative forms of ought
are almost always followed by the infinitive form:
We ought to go now.
You ought not to worry about it.
Occasionally, to is omittedafter the negative construction:
Congress ought not adjourn without considering this bill.
BRITISH DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS FOR OUGHT
USAGE FOR OUGHT
In correct English,
ought is not used with did or had.
I ought not to do it, not I didn't ought to do it;
I ought not to have done it, not I hadn't ought to have done it
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Aught
The noun aught means “zero,” or, when used in the plural
as “the aughts,” a way of referring to the decade between 2000 and 2009.
It originally meant “nothing,”
and derives from another word that means “nothing”: naught.
Naught comes from Old English and the false division created by the phonetic resemblance between “a naught”
and “an aught” is to blame for the existence of two such otherwise similar words.
Did You Know?
Pronoun
If you know aught which does behove my knowledge / Thereof to be inform'd, imprison't not / In ignorant concealment, Polixenes begs Camillo in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, employing the "anything" sense of "aught."
Shakespeare didn't coin the pronoun "aught," which has been a part of the English language since before the 12th century, but he did put it to frequent use.
Writers today may be less likely to use "aught" than were their literary predecessors, but the pronoun does continue to turn up occasionally.
"Aught" can also be a noun meaning "zero,"
and for a while the phrase "the aughts" was bandied about
as a proposed label for the decade that began in the year 2000.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language,
Usage Note:
Unlike other auxiliary verbs,
ought usually takes to with its accompanying verb:
We ought to go.
Sometimes the accompanying verb is dropped
if the meaning is clear:
Should we begin soon? Yes, we ought to.
In questions and negative sentences,
especially those with contractions, to isalso sometimes omitted:
Oughtn't we be going soon?
This omission of to, however, is not common in written English. Like must and auxiliary need,
ought to does not change to show past tense:
He said we ought to get moving along.
Usages such as He hadn't ought to come
and She shouldn't ought to say that
are common in many varieties of AmericanEnglish.
They should be avoided in written English, however,
in favor of the standard ought not to.
Collins English Dictionary
Usage:
In correct English,
ought is not used with did or had.
I ought not to do it, not I didn't ought to do it;
I ought not to have done it, not I hadn't ought to have done it
Ought (ɔːt) pron, adv
a variant spelling of aught1
ought (ɔːt) n
a less common word for nought1
[mistaken division of a nought as an ought; see nough
