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Old Jan 3rd 2019, 6:16 pm
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Originally Posted by Eric S
A question for you Brits out there (I'm American):

In the US, we would say, for example, "non resident". But I've seen some Brits use "none resident". Is that a UK thing?

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Isn't this wrong? The only time I have ever written "non" has been in French class, otherwise I've always written non- followed by something else.
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Old Jan 3rd 2019, 10:56 pm
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Originally Posted by vespucci
Isn't this wrong? The only time I have ever written "non" has been in French class, otherwise I've always written non- followed by something else.
What you have highlighted is correct. I also usually hyphenate in this scenario, so “non-resident”, but I don’t think it needs the hyphen to render it correct.
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Originally Posted by tonrob

What you have highlighted is correct. I also usually hyphenate in this scenario, so “non-resident”, but I don’t think it needs the hyphen to render it correct.
Again, to get back to the devices we use, their foibles, and the effect it has on our submitted text - on my iPad, at least (maybe different on other tablets or other iPads) the hyphen is on another keyboard from the letters. So, if feeling lazy, I sometimes dispense with hyphens. I notice they are never supplied by the spellchecker.
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Noone seems able to spell these days

On another forum I frequent one of the regulars (and a real PITA) used “noone” so frequently instead of “no one” that the admins created an account with member name “noone” and each time he would say things like “noone uses libraries much these days” then his post would be quoted by “noone” saying something like “You talking to me?”. This went on for years and he never seemed to notice. Eventually he stopped posting on the site.
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Well, along similar lines, two posts ago I typed "may be" and the machine turned it into "maybe." In that particular case, either would have worked, so I left it. Other times "maybe" and "may be" are not the same thing! I just tried typing "noone" and the machine wants to correct it to "no one," though.
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Originally Posted by robin1234
Well, along similar lines, two posts ago I typed "may be" and the machine turned it into "maybe." In that particular case, either would have worked, so I left it. Other times "maybe" and "may be" are not the same thing! I just tried typing "noone" and the machine wants to correct it to "no one," though.
Exactly what we found. This member obviously thought he knew better than the autocorrect and insisted on using “noone”

Go figure!!
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