Comments on: Geography

By: Steph

Steph — Tue, 23 Jul 2002 19:54:00 +0000

I usually spell no one as two words. I don’t know if one version is more correct than the other, but two words seems to alleviate confusion (i.e. eliminate the tendency to read it as rhyming with boone).
I don’t really have any differing connotations between no one and nobody, and between anyone and anybody. I think the difference is primarily aural. I would choose one over the other depending on which flowed better with the context.

By: francis s.

francis s. — Tue, 23 Jul 2002 07:54:00 +0000

Yeah, well, mostly they are interchangeable. But not completely. “Anyone could do it” means pretyt much the opposite of “No one could do it.”

By: Dennis

Dennis — Tue, 23 Jul 2002 07:38:00 +0000

do you ever notice a difference between anyone and anybody, or noone and nobody?
Nope. Except that “noone” always has, and always will, look funny to me. Looks like it rhymes with “Boone.”