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No one, noone or no-one

Do you write no one, noone or no-one?
  

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[/nq] I seem to recall this has been done in detail here, but for me it is almost invariably "no one". -- Cheers, Harvey Ottawa/Toronto/Edmonton for 30 years; Southern England for the past 21 years. (for e-mail, change harvey to whhvs)

  • [/nq] I seem to recall this has been done in detail here, but for me it is almost invariably "no one".
  • -- Cheers, Harvey Ottawa/Toronto/Edmonton for 30 years; Southern England for the past 21 years.
  • (for e-mail, change harvey to whhvs)
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[nq:1]Do you write no one, noone or no-one?[/nq]
I seem to recall this has been done in detail here, but for me it is almost invariably "no one".

-- Cheers, Harvey

Ottawa/Toronto/Edmonton for 30 years; Southern England for the past 21 years. (for e-mail, change harvey to whhvs)
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[nq:1]Do you write no one, noone or no-one?[/nq]
I write "no one," which I like to believe is the standard form in the US.

In the UK, "no-one" is quite common, possibly more common than "no one."

"Noone" is either a stupid error or someone's surname with a lower-case first letter.

-- Bob Lieblich Nobody runs faster than I do
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No-one in UK English

Regards,

Kevin Stone

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[nq:1]Do you write no one, noone or no-one?[/nq]
Yes.

Adrian
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[nq:1]No-one in UK English Regards, Kevin Stone

UK English Speaker (expert(ish))

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[nq:1]Do you write no one, noone or no-one?[/nq]
I write no-one. How do you write it?

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In article (Email Removed), Daniel James (Email Removed) writes
[nq:2]Do you write no one, noone or no-one?[/nq]
[nq:1]I hate hyphens, but "noone" looks so silly that I'd probably write "no-one" (unless I meant "no one", of course). ... right way. Both "no one" and "no-one" have their place in differentiating two quite distinctly different meanings of this word-sequence.[/nq]
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[nq:1]Both "no one" and "no-one" have their place in differentiating two quite distinctly different meanings of this word-sequence. No one person can know absolutely everything. No-one has ever run at the speed of sound.[/nq]
If "No one person can know absolutely everything" is sound, why is "No one can know absolutely everything" not? If we can, and do, write things like "One is fr
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In article (Email Removed), Eric Walker (Email Removed) writes
[nq:1] (...)[/nq]
[nq:2]Both "no one" and "no-one" have their place in differentiating ... everything. No-one has ever run at the speed of sound.[/nq]
[nq:1]If "No one person can know absolutely everything" is sound, why is "No one can know absolutely everything" not?[/nq]
Perhaps I should have given as example:-
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[nq:1]In article (Email Removed), Eric Walker (Email Removed) writes[/nq]
[nq:2] (...) If "No one person can know absolutely everything" is sound, why is "No one can know absolutely everything" not?[/nq]
[nq:1]Perhaps I should have given as example:- No one frog has ever hopped at the speed of sound. and No-one can know absolutely everything. OK, so the "one" with the frog is redundant, b

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