"<a href=""https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uz6xOFWi4A&amp;t=0m09s"">0:09</a> - One shouldn’t say “zero coal” because zero is a number. Just as one wouldn’t say “Britain was burning twenty-three coal” which makes no sense either. It’s either <i>no coal</i> or <i>some coal.</i>"