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Also, I deplore the use of that in non-nonrestrictive clauses, though condone the occasional use of which in restrictive clauses where the sense is clear.

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  1. A Middle English form of none.
  2. A Middle English form of noon.
  3. Not. Lerneth to suffre, or elles so moot I goon, Ye shul it lerne, wherso ye wole or noon. Chaucer, Franklin's Tale, l. 50.

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  1. ME, non, noon, from Old French (and F.) non = Spanish no = Portuguese não = Italian no, from Latin non, Old Latin nenum, nenu, noenum, noenu, not, orig. ne oinom (ne ūnum), from ne, not, + oinom, ūnum, accusative of oinos, ūnus = English one. See none, which is cognate with L, non, and with which rare Middle English non, adv., seems to have merged.
 

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