Noone Special, when I first saw your name, I thought of lunch. 
Hey, I’m game for a nooner! Anytime you want. (you are female, right?) Just let me know - oh about 3 days ahead of time, what with travel arrangements, and all the time zones that will have to be crossed on the way…
(Goes away to check whether passport is valid)
Dani
All statements about word usage should be verified, but some one simply has to take on trust.
(I’m here all week, you know.)
As to the OP: “no one”. “No-one”? My heart bleeds for the innocent hyphen cruelly thus imprisoned …
I love discussing turning points in war. Was the Battle of Somme one?
Yeah, I got nuthin’…
Hi, Opti!
I thought this was a discussion of the school kid who got two numeric series as homework. He had to multiply one, and sum one.
Hey, I’m good at bad puns! 
Dani
Well, there were lots of Allied troops at lots of First World War battles, and I believe some won the Somme one.
“Hey, who was that Mexican?”
“Oh, just some Juan.”
Nice try, but that’s a really awkward sentence. Without changing any of the words, I’d add a comma after “some” to create a pause, making the sentence much easier to read, yet somewhat nullifying the idea of “some one” as a word pair.
“All statements about word usage should be verified, but some, one simply has to take on trust.”
The “take on” part of the sentence I find somewhat awkward as well.
Anyhoo…
If you just say “nobody,” you needn’t remember how to spell it.
English (like most languages) is a constantly evolving method of communicating between people. And what is correct is whatever can be clearly understood by the people doing the communicating.
The standard progression of a combined term like this in English is:
- 2 separate words (separated with a space).
- 2 words, joined with a hyphen.
- a compound word, with no separation.
Thus in George Washington’s time you see “to morrow”, in Abraham Lincoln’s time “to-morrow”, and in the 19th Century and after “tomorrow”.
The time that it takes for this progression seems to depend on how frequently the term is used, how clearly it describes something, and a bit on how ‘likeable’ the new term is to people. And terms seem to progress faster nowadays, with more written communication going on. I remember as recently as the 1960’s seeing the term “soft-ware”, with a hyphen. Now, that is almost completely a single compound word. And sometimes terms don’t complete this progression, but stay as separate words or hyphenated words in standard usage.
It would seem that “no one” is moving along this progression: “no one” in common usage, sometimes hyphenated “no-one” (more common in British usage), and a few people using it as a compount word already: “noone”.
It’s still to be seen if this will move all the way to a compound term in standard usage. I suspect that it will not, because there are 2 different vowel sounds at the join, and combining them gives a double vowel at the join. This is commonly pronounced differently, as a single vowel, so it is confusing when written. (As many people said, the tendancy is to think of it as “noon”.) This is probably enough confusion to prevent this one from ever becoming a compound word for most people.
Ah! So I’m just ahead of my time! I am the Avant Guard!! (Scratches head - is there a space in avant guard?)
But the pseudo-double-o construct already exists, for example in “cooperation”.
Dani
“e.e. cummings”, shurely?
Cooperation = a business run by chickens
Don’t tell me I’m the only one who still uses diaereses: noöne.
When using a medium that doesn’t allow them, I usually spell it “no-one” (or “noo:ne”, but that generally just seems to confuse people).
Coalition = the majority of the miners.
(next up - major/minor, anyone? :p)