Order of the Bath

Why is it that some people have started using “none” when they mean “non” as a negative prefix to words? I think I first noticed it in some Word documents or email. MS-Word certainly doesn’t object to “none-” probably because the spell checker regards it as a separate word but it may arise if you leave a space because “non” by itself is not an English word. Do a Google search for “none-combatant” to see what I mean. This morning I even heard someone pronounce it NONE on the radio and he otherwise spoke perfectly good English.

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