250: Nihil Aug 15, 2015

This post is about nothing in particular. The Latin word, ‘nihil’ gives English a few words today. The ideology, nihilism, holds that nothing has any meanings; to reduce something to nothing is to ‘annihilate’ it; and not to forget ‘nil’ is nonexistent.
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