Is “noone” as correct and acceptable as “no one”?

[Critical Mass]

My apologies if this topic has been brought up before. I tried searching, but the search function deemed that noone was too common to search for.

I only recently noticed that noone is a commonly used word. I suppose I’ve seen it before, but attributed it to being a typo instead of the intended spelling.

I’ve always used “no one” and thought of it as two words. To me, noone looks wrong. My mind looks at noone and says noon.

Is noone a regional thing (Canadian here)? Is it a recent phenomenon? Is it two words or one? Would it be used in a formal document or is it used more colloquially?

I don’t know if there are factual answers to this question, so I’ll throw this into IMHO. Please move to a more appropriate forum if this proves to be the wrong one.

[Otto]

It's not acceptable to me. If I saw it in print I would consider it to be the result of poor editing and proofing.

[Ice Wolf]

To me, it's "no one". "Noone" is just "noon" with a sloppy e at the end.

[Marley23]

It's not correct or accepted formally.

[Richard Pearse]

Noone looks wrong, but you would think it should be as acceptable as someone. Apparently not.

[rinni]

Once in junior high I left a binder unattended in a room. The binder was signed all over by friends of mine.

Someone wrote, "Hi Lynn, from Noone" while the binder was out of my sight.

All I could think was, "I don't know anyone named Noone! What an odd name!" And it took me a couple of weeks to get it. Yeahhh.

[Jonathan Chance]

Originally Posted by Otto

It's not acceptable to me. If I saw it in print I would consider it to be the result of poor editing and proofing.

Yeah, it bugs me, too. Though I seem to recall that Clancy's 'Sum of All Fears' paperback spelled it that way consistently. Oofah.

[twickster]

Originally Posted by Jonathan Chance

Yeah, it bugs me, too. Though I seem to recall that Clancy's 'Sum of All Fears' paperback spelled it that way consistently. Oofah.

That's what you get for reading Tom Clancy.

[Zeldar]

In an effort to be clever I planned to mention Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits fame, but wanted to be sure of his spelling so I went to IMDB and just entered "Noone" into the Names search. Try it. You'll like it.

[Ximenean]

It just gives me a list of actors named Noone. Pretty much what I was expecting, to be honest.

[Zeldar]

Originally Posted by Usram

It just gives me a list of actors named Noone. Pretty much what I was expecting, to be honest.

I didn't expect so many. Peter was the only one I knew of before the search.

[RealityChuck]

I have seen the use of "no-one" in books published in the UK.

Logically, "noone" makes sense as a parallel to "someone," but the problem is that it would then be pronounced "noon" and the meaning lost. So it still remains two words.

The OED does not list "noone"; a search on the term comes up with "no one," so it's probably considered an usual variant (though they do have "no-one").

[Kythereia]

I always use "no-one", but then, I'm a Lynne Truss fanatic.

[Rachm Qoch]

Originally Posted by RealityChuck

I have seen the use of "no-one" in books published in the UK.

Logically, "noone" makes sense as a parallel to "someone," but the problem is that it would then be pronounced "noon" and the meaning lost. So it still remains two words.

The OED does not list "noone"; a search on the term comes up with "no one," so it's probably considered an usual variant (though they do have "no-one").

You could simplify things and just use noöne.

[ftg]

Originally Posted by Zeldar

In an effort to be clever I planned to mention Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits fame, but wanted to be sure of his spelling so I went to IMDB and just entered "Noone" into the Names search. Try it. You'll like it.

I read a magazine article about Noone once where the word processor program decided it was "noone" and when it needed to insert a line break, hyphenation ensued. (I am amazed at how often such errors are found in newspapers and magazines today. Whatever happened to copy editing?)

[Garfield226]

Originally Posted by ftg

\(I am amazed at how often such errors are found in newspapers and magazines today. Whatever happened to copy editing?)

Overworked, underpaid and generally not considered to be an interesting/fun job.

[JonScribe]

There is a contraction for "no one." The word you're searching for is "none."

If you're seeing "noone," I'd chalk it up to a typo. Or even a typoo.

[kanicbird]

It'sokifyourspacebardoesn'twork

[Brynda]

I misspelled "no one" as "noone" when I was a kid. My teacher said "noon-y?" and I never made that mistake again.

[kanicbird]

It'sokifyourspacebardoesn'twork

[Ty Cobb]

Why didn't anyone check a dictionary ???

Spelling is not something you inherently just know, so you always need references.

Check with these nine dictionaries, and you'll see they don't know about "noone"
http://dictionary.langenberg.com/

[RealityChuck]

Originally Posted by Kythereia

I always use "no-one", but then, I'm a Lynne Truss fanatic.

My sympathies.

[Sal Ammoniac]

Come on, this thread is tailor-made for Noone Special. Now, where in tarnation is he? Asleep? Someone wake him up!

[chappachula]

Noone looks and sounds icky!!!!

The double vowels look bad because they disobey the rules for how to pronounce them.
Normally, 2 vowels together get pronounced together as one. But here,you have to separate them, pronounce each one individually, and let the second one start a new syllable. This is just plain awkward.

But there is one exception I can think of:
"freest" also looks icky, but is correct. (more free=freer, most free=freest)