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

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-noone-as-correct-and-acceptable-as-no-one/341076>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 22, 2006, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-noone-as-correct-and-acceptable-as-no-one/341076 "2006-01-22T05:49:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ty\_Cobb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ee59a6/32.png) [@Ty\_Cobb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ty_Cobb)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-noone-as-correct-and-acceptable-as-no-one/341076/21 "2006-01-22T23:48:19Z")

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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/](http://dictionary.langenberg.com/)

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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-noone-as-correct-and-acceptable-as-no-one/341076/22 "2006-01-23T14:40:14Z")

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> [@Kythereia](#):
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> I always use “no-one”, but then, I’m a Lynne Truss fanatic.

My sympathies.

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**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-noone-as-correct-and-acceptable-as-no-one/341076/23 "2006-01-23T16:27:56Z")

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

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**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-noone-as-correct-and-acceptable-as-no-one/341076/24 "2006-01-23T18:25:15Z")

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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)

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