On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:53:03 +0100, hants...@googlemail.com 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 -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
