Talk:noöne
Noöne was used before the first world war in conjunction with no-one. This may have come over from Germany due to the inter marrying of the European royal families. However it was stopped from being used at the out set of the War because the British public saw the Hun as the enemy. Along with this word, which never used again in Britain, many others changed such as the name of the royal family (Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to Windsor) as did the Mountbattens (it was German for example Colonel Prince Henry of Battenberg) Battenberg was corrupted to be more British.
Any sources or examples of old uses of the deprecated spelling?[edit]
This being a deprecated spelling of "noone" seems dubious to me.
Other uses of the diaresis mark, such as naïve, that originate from other languages, can easily be traced back. But noone (or no-one) is distinctively English, and English does not use this diacritic.
Without examples from old texts, marking this spelling as "deprecated" seems unwarranted; was it ever used at all? Having this in wiktionary seems to be the only legitimacy for this claim - I found no other dictionary that includes it. Laugh Tough (talk) 21:05, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
- It's definitely real. I had a writing lecturer at university who used it. It's definitely dated though. Mclay1 (talk) 06:21, 15 December 2016 (UTC)