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Nowt is a Northern English idiom for nothing.

“Nowt taken out” was an old advertising slogan for Allinson’s Bread[1][2].

I think in this case it means not having an apostrophe. That is, nothing as opposed to something.

Nowt is used in the north of England to mean nothing.

Google is telling me that it's a specifically a pronoun, which is interesting. Opposite of "it/that" = "nowt"?

Thats very wrong. Owt=Anything Nowt= Nothing. "Do you want owt from the shop?". "Nowt mate ta". Is usually how you would hear it.

Ooooh, that makes sense. I didn't know about "owt" either!