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The preferred spelling of nonse is n-o-n-S-e although c-e is an acceptable ethnic variant.

Source: originally come from a time and place where you call your friends one for a laugh (and shout it at actual ones you know from cars)



It’s always been nonce. Source: have used it since the eighties.




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