boxdog1 replied to your link: No one vs. noone - Usage - Grammarist
I see “noone” all over the internet, it grinds my last nerve.
Me too! Thus the post.
While phrases like no body, some body, and some one have evolved into the compound words nobody, somebody, and someone, the similar phrase no one has never gone this route. A quick internet search reveals that noone is popular for a nonstandard word, which shows that the impulse to compound is strong among English speakers. Still, perhaps because of the potential mispronunciation generated by the doubled o‘s, no major dictionaries list noone as an accepted word. For now, no one is considered the only correct spelling.
The Go-Betweens, Finding You
Preschool birthday party
Preschool birthday party
(via Nicolas Cage Wants To Do Wicker Man 2 | Movie News | Empire)
Yesterday was an epic day at Empire. In case you weren’t one of the throng squeezed sardine-like onto the internet for the great man’s webchat, Nicolas Cage was here to field all manner of questions, from the wise to the plain wacky, and all things in between.
When he wasn’t elucidating on his experiences in a haunted Romanian forest or talking us through his Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance prep in Stanislavskian detail, he was sharing his favourite movie lines (“Vive la fucking France, man!”) and joining the ongoing Best Sandwich Ever debate with a roast lamb, tomato and rocket affair.
Along the way, there were a couple of interesting Cage titbits worth sharing. The first was that he’s open to the idea of a Wicker Man sequel. Now before you run screaming “Not the bees! Not the bees!” (if it’s not too late), this was delivered with half a smile and a wryness that suggests it could be nothing more than a pipe-dream. But still, can you imagine?
ideleteme replied to your post: look at you, all up on the radar! hehe. YAY!
don’t forget us little people, woolie!
Ha! NEVER. NB4R.
warrennotg asked: look at you, all up on the radar! hehe. YAY!
I wondered.
What a strange thing to hit the radar for.
(via When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents? - Mental Floss)
There are many, many evolving regional British and American accents, so the terms “British accent” and “American accent” are gross oversimplifications. What a lot of Americans think of as the typical “British accent” is what’s called standardized Received Pronunciation (RP), also known as Public School English or BBC English. What most people think of as an “American accent,” or most Americans think of as “no accent,” is the General American (GenAm) accent, sometimes called a ”newscaster accent” or “Network English.” Because this is a blog post and not a book, we’ll focus on these two general sounds for now and leave the regional accents for another time.
English colonists established their first permanent settlement in the New World at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607, sounding very much like their countrymen back home. By the time we had recordings of both Americans and Brits some three centuries later (the first audio recording of a human voice was made in 1860), the sounds of English as spoken in the Old World and New World were very different. We’re looking at a silent gap of some 300 years, so we can’t say exactly when Americans first started to sound noticeably different from the British.
As for the “why,” though, one big factor in the divergence of the accents is rhotacism. The General American accent is rhotic and speakers pronounce the r in words such as hard. The BBC-type British accent is non-rhotic, and speakers don’t pronounce the r, leaving hard sounding more like hahd. Before and during the American Revolution, the English, both in England and in the colonies, mostly spoke with a rhotic accent. We don’t know much more about said accent, though. Various claims about the accents of the Appalachian Mountains, the Outer Banks, the Tidewater region and Virginia’s Tangier Island sounding like an uncorrupted Elizabethan-era English accent have been busted as myths by linguists.
PJ Harvey, Beautiful Feeling
Amber in the swing
Sweet Amber died today. Poor BFF E and her family. She was a good girl who will be missed.
Posted “New Moon on Monday” on Facebook with “number one song on the day I was born.”
Which, you know, no.
It amused me.
Old age does not amuse me s’much.
Duran Duran, New Moon on Monday
It’s Monday and there’s a new moon! No other song is appropriate.
