"Noone" bothers me. Am I alone?

I would like to draw attention to two marks, that look alike, but has a different meaning. We have the hyphen, that joins two parts of word (as in co-operative); and then we have the dash, that separates some words or sentences from the rest; here one should have an extra space inserted - before and after the dash - to avoid misunderstanding.

When I see noone, I think 'nooner', which rarely fits the context of the conversation.

When it comes to dashes separating words or sentences, the em dash is usually preferred, which is the same as a hyphen (or en dash), but longer. "M" being a wider letter than "N". In either case, when using it to separate words or phrases, no space is used before or after. Alternatively, two hyphens can be used (--), which is what I usually use because it is so much clearer (to me). I often have to override MSWord to not replace these with the em dash.

I wonder what Peter Noone (Herman, of Herman's Hermits) would think of this thread.

True enough - but then 'yo' has its own sound, but 'anyone' doesn't bother us.

It didn't bother me until you pointed it out. Thanks Phil!

I much prefer nobody to noone. I read noone and "noon-e" until my brain translates it.

To Graves: I must confess, that I have been so lazy as to use en dash everywhere. Formerly it was enough to place two dashes, and they turned automatically into an em dash. Now I have to use: alt+126 in order to get an em dash. Forty years of typesetting with Danish rules makes it impossible for me not to placing a space before and after.

Noone is perfectly acceptable only if you're writing about the nerk who was the lead singer in Herman's Hermits.

I always write no one that way, as two separate words. Joined it does definitely look like a misspelling of noon, as in midday.