"No one" not "noone."
"No one" not "noone."
"No one" not "noone."#1
Posted: 11/1/08 at 11:53am
I don't know why this drives me crazy, lately. Perhaps because I've seen it so much, here and elsewhere.
Someone. (one word)
No one. (two words)
"Noone" is a last name. Like Peter Noone from Herman's Hermits (below).
There I feel better now. I just had to say it.
"Noone" else would say it, right?
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re: 'No one' not 'noone.'#2
Posted: 11/1/08 at 11:56amI do not approve of 'noone', however I do approve of 'nooner'.
re: 'No one' not 'noone.'#2
Posted: 11/1/08 at 11:57am
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re: 'No one' not 'noone.'#4
Posted: 11/1/08 at 12:05pm
Yeah, I've seen "Noone is Alone" cited as a song from INTO THE WOODS.
But while on the subject of usage and spelling, may we not save "momentos" instead of "mementos" as souvenirs?
As in, "These minty Mentos are mementos of a wonderful momento making out with my mentor, a man from Mendicino..."
re: 'No one' not 'noone.'#5
Posted: 11/1/08 at 12:29pmThat's so ironic, I was going to listen to Noone is Alone this morning and then I said to myself, "Nevermind, you listen to that song alot."
re: 'No one' not 'noone.'#6
Posted: 11/1/08 at 1:30pm
Peter Noone is here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSAvVRgHzl8
"Noone" vs. "no one" is here:
The Random House Guide to Good Writing
re: 'No one' not 'noone.'#7
Posted: 11/1/08 at 1:39pmI know this is going to sound really random, but I myself am some one who is interested in really random things so I think this book sound's really good plus also too it has "random" right in the title. Any way I am going to save up and order it from Amazon's.
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re: 'No one' not 'noone.'#9
Posted: 11/1/08 at 2:41pm
Sung to the tune of "Come Back to Sorrento":
COUNTING BOTH FEET, I HAVE TEN TOES
THEY'RE NOT LADY TOES, THEY'RE MEN TOES
AND I KEEP THEM AS MEMENTOS
IN MY HAUNTED MEMORY
- Alan Sherman
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re: 'No one' not 'noone.'#11
Posted: 11/1/08 at 8:36pmIn a strange reversal, I've seen Nora Jane Noone (the British actress from MAGDALENE SISTERS and THE DESCENT) listed in some reviews and movie summaries as "Nora Jane No One." Must be some spell-check default. How must that make her feel?
re: 'No one' not 'noone.'#12
Posted: 11/1/08 at 8:45pm
I just LOVE that movie with Gary Cooper, "High No One!"
A true classic.
...What?!?
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re: 'No one' not 'noone.'#13
Posted: 11/2/08 at 8:37am
besty--
I tend to write "not one" instead of "no one" in technical articles.
re: 'No one' not 'noone.'#14
Posted: 11/2/08 at 8:40amI suppose that's better than "know won."
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re: 'No one' not 'noone.'#15
Posted: 11/2/08 at 10:01am
Trivia:
Back in 82 we were sitting around the green room telling "celebs you have had sex with stories" and the musical dir. said "you people have probably never heard of this guy, but Peter Noone. He was reduced to playing county fair type gigs at that point in his career".
I certainly knew who Peter Noone was, most in the room didn't.
the keyboardist mentioned a limo tryst with Tim Curry, but that's another tale for another day.
re: 'No one' not 'noone.'#16
Posted: 11/2/08 at 10:09amI was an editor for a few semesters at my college paper and the editor of the feminist magazine on campus, and you would be shocked at how many reporters make that stupid mistake. I had to fix "noone" and "no one" probably once a week, and then hit the reporter over the head with my AP stylebook.
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