He'd get zero points from me....
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"Zero" comes from my military days. Kinda like the phonetic alphabet, it can't be mistooken for summat else.
There is now....
You were asking about "country of origin" re whisk(e)y. Well, it applies here as well. Tic-tac-toe is US, noughts and crosses is UK, and Xs and Os is Canadian and Irish.
Australians call the game "stoopid".