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comment by caeli
caeli  ·  3424 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Is "none of them" singular or plural? Let Google Books decide!

Yeah, "none" is a tricky word. I was going for the standard English teacher prescriptivist "none is always singular" view, which is very simplified.

    The last two sound very incorrect... So maybe there really isn't a hard-and-fast rule.

That's the point :D