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Re: typo in constitution.



On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Santiago Vila wrote:

: On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Malcolm Parsons wrote:
: 
: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:25:51PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
: > > > also s/noone/nobody/
: > >
: > > British English, not a typo (I think).
: >
: > I am British, "no one" is two words, "noone" is a figment of your
: > imagination.
: 
: s/noone/no one/ then. Changing the wording is not the same as fixing a typo.

If you like, but "nobody" means "no one":

nobody \No"bod*y\, n.; pl. Nobodies. [No, a. + body.] 
1. No person; no one; not anybody.

BTW "Noone" is an Irish surname pronounced the same as "noon"

-- 
Malcolm Parsons 
finger malcolm@bits.bris.ac.uk for info. (updated 11/2/2000)



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