Date:  Tue, 14 Dec 1993 01:53:05 -0500

From:  "Aaron E. Drews" <DREWSA[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GUVAX.BITNET>

Subject: No one



Hi y'all,

    I have a question about orthography. This probably isn't the

right network to ask, but I'm sure someone will have an answer.

    A couple of friends of mine that are amature writers spell the

word(s) meaning "not anyone" as <noone>, which my mind pronounces

/nun/ every time I come across it. I learned that it was supposed to

be spelled <no   one>.

    Although this is dealing with the written lg and not dialects,

per se, it still is a choice of linguistic expression. So, is it

supposed to be spelled <noone> or <no one>? Any prescriptive answers

out there?



--Aaron Drews

--Georgetown University

--SLL '96