# Is 'noone' a word?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-noone-a-word/87158>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 13, 2001, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-noone-a-word/87158 "2001-10-13T00:04:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-noone-a-word/87158/21 "2001-10-13T23:39:20Z")

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**The Great Gazoo’s** feeble assault on my claim;

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> Are you sure that the search wasn’t turning up only part of the word, such as “nooner”? From what I’ve read here, that word could be used a lot.

I, of course, did _not_ read all those posts. Why would I go to so much trouble for something that might not support my position? 😉 Don’t you pay any attention to the methods of successful people?  
BTW, folks, nooner didn’t make the cut either.  
Peace,  
mangeorge

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**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-noone-a-word/87158/22 "2001-10-13T23:44:57Z")

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**The Great Gazoo’s** feeble assault on my claim;

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> Are you sure that the search wasn’t turning up only part of the word, such as “nooner”? From what I’ve read here, that word could be used a lot.

I, of course, did _not_ read all those posts. Why would I go to so much trouble for something that might not support my position? 😉 Don’t you pay any attention to the methods of successful people?  
BTW, folks, nooner didn’t make the cut either.  
Peace,  
mangeorge

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**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2001, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-noone-a-word/87158/23 "2001-10-14T00:03:12Z")

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I thought that noone was a word that e.e. cummings invented for one of his poems. Is that not so?

From _anyone lived in a pretty how town_ bye e.e. cummings:

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> children guessed (but only a few  
> and down they forgot as up they grew  
> autumn winter spring summer)  
> that noone loved him more by more
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> […blah blah blah some paragraphs]
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> one day anyone died i guess  
> (and noone stooped to kiss his face)  
> busy folk buried them side by side  
> little by little and was by was
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> all by all and deep by deep  
> and more by more they dream their sleep  
> noone and anyone earth by april  
> wish by spirit and if by yes.
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> [some more paragraphs and end of poem]

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**Author:** ![the\_iconoclast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b38774/32.png) [@the\_iconoclast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_iconoclast)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2001, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-noone-a-word/87158/24 "2001-10-14T05:29:25Z")

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peter “noone” was the lead singer in a 60s band called hermans hermits.

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