None - definition of none by The Free Dictionary You only use none of or none to talk about a group of three or more things or people If you want to talk about two things or people, you use neither of or neither
none - Wiktionary, the free dictionary None used to replace uncountable nouns should always be singular None used in place of countable nouns may be either singular or plural, unless the rest of the circumstances or phrasing require it to be one or the other
“None” - Singular or Plural? - Grammar. com The use of the singular none in that statement says not a bloody one understands this terrible fear But compare this example of the plural from The New Yorker, which also appears in New Fowler: