...to be nonplussed about the use of NON- and NONE?

[EastMidsMummy]

I am being totally non-judgmental about this, but what's with the non-stop use of NON- on here when people mean NONE? NON- is a non-word. It is non-negotiable. It's a prefix you add to a word, not a word itself. OK, maybe you're a non-native speaker in which case it's perhaps a non-problem.

If you mean nothing, nada, zilch, it's spelled NONE. It's a whole word in its own right.

Did you read the thread about the different definitions of the word nonplussed?

No. What did it say?

East your post reads as though you are hoping to trick people into thinking you are using one meaning of nonplussed when you are actually using the other. Not saying you are but that is how it is coming across.

Well, I'd always assumed it meant confused.
However, apparently there is an informal North American use that means unperturbed as in not bothered.
I wondered if nonplussed in the second usage was being confused with nonfussed.

not fussed

I had no idea anyone was corrupting the original meaning of nonplussed. I mean nonplussed as its dictionary definition: being confused.

But this is a non-argument. I'm more bothered about NONE.

I think you need to get out more.

How do you pronounce none, out of interest? I pronounce it nun, but dh pronounces it non, so i wonder if that's where the confusion come in. He's from N England, I'm from S. Wales.

I haven't seen that on here.

I'm more irritated by people who use "none" when they mean "non". When you keep seeing things like "none-event" or "none English" you have to stop to work it out, not least because it's not pronounced the same way.

When you keep seeing things like "none-event" or "none English" you have to stop to work it out, not least because it's not pronounced the same way.
Am I the only one here who hasn't come across this issue before reading this thread?

Glad you said that Quinions.

I am usually quite pedantic about grammar, but this one has passed me by!

You'll start to notice it now...