On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:53:03 +0100, hantslug@??? said:
> Erm... no one = noone or no-one - but in either case the number of
> people is clearly one. singular
Absolutely, agreed. One would have hoped that, amongst all the words
collected together in the dictionary, there would be a gender neutral
third person singular possessive pronoun. Maybe I should have said, "that
no one in its right mind would want to work for..."
As for "no one" or "no-one" or "noone", my (somewhat dated) copy of
Fowler's Modern English Usage suggests that "no one" is preferred.
But Lisi: good to know that someone is watching me! Thanks!
Keith
