It was said, with what truth we know not, that all Cambridge scholars call the cipher aught, and all Oxford scholars call it nought. (Maria Edgeworth)

It was said, with what truth we know not, that all Cambridge scholars call the cipher aught, and all Oxford scholars call it nought.

Maria Edgeworth

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