Who is Noone?

[Caaarrrl]

I am constantly reading about someone called Noone. Noone does all sorts of things. Has anyone any idea who they are? No one got an answer for me?

I always read it as noone too. My auto correct tried to actually correct that as I was typing it so surely some other people's must do the same.

It's the same when people type Co-Op as coop. I wonder why they do it.

Peter

Was he an actor?

Surely no one actually believes it to be a word?

Sadly they seem to think it is. 'As well' and 'a lot' have been merged together too it seems. With those two, they do sound the same when you read them but I do read noone as noon.

Noone bothers me far less than ‘alot’.

Yes. I see "alot" a lot (!) from my year 6 pupils at school. Drives me up the wall!

I write, "This is not a word. Rewrite correctly."

Lead singer of Herman's Hermits

I am a words person and I used to work as a sub-editor (someone who wrote the headlines and corrected and cut the copy – note my use of past tense as no one does this now ) on a local newspaper.

A colleague who was a sub with me once asked me "Is 'abit' one word, the same as 'alot'?"

I was genuinely lost for words, which if you knew me, you would be amazed at

A more helpful way to respond would be 'This is not one word, the correct spelling is: a lot.'

People who spell incorrectly are just as worthy of respect as those who spell perfectly.

My iPhone dictation function seems to think awhile is a word .

@TheKneesOfTheBees 'awhile' is a word.

Reasonable point @WingSlutz but surely not as common as a while, which IMO should be the default.

They know the correct spelling of the words. They also know that the pronoun I requires a capital letter a d tbst dosent is not a word. However, they do not bother to use them correctly. They are not spelling the common words incorrectly because of not knowing the correct way. It is very frustrating as a teacher.

Please excuse typos. Something seems to be off with the screen on my phone.

Noone also wants to loose the weight... cue a mental image of little pockets of fat let loose running across a field.

@TheKneesOfTheBees you are correct. The assumptions that my autocorrect makes on my behalf are infuriating!
Not helped by the fact that I need to find my bloody reading glasses to check what I've actually typed. Grr.