noone
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From no + one. Compare Middle English noone, noon, noan (“noone”). More at none.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈnəʊwʌn/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊwʌn
Pronoun
[edit]noone
- Nonstandard spelling of no one.
Usage notes
[edit]- Noone is formed in parallel to the formation of nobody, anyone, and everyone, but it is not preferred by most because of the doubled vowel creating a temptation to read and pronounce it as "noon" (/nuːn/). For this reason, the form no one is the most common. This has also led to the use of the form noöne, which is even more rare than noone.
- American users (COCA) prefer the spelling no one to either noone or no-one by more than 500 to 1.
- UK users (BNC) prefer no-one to noone 50 to 1 and no one to noone 12 to 1.
Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English none, noune, from Old English nōn (“noon; the ninth hour”). Cognate with Dutch noen, Icelandic nón. More at noon.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈnuːn/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -uːn
Noun
[edit]noone (plural noones)
Further reading
[edit]Fula
[edit]Noun
[edit]noone o
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.
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