Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for December 14, 2016

And it never was.

Oh, dear. ‘Nonce’ definitely IS a word but it doesn’t mean ‘less than once’. A nonce is a sex offender.

I’d never heard of the word ‘nonce’. Never.

I heard it used in the phrase “for the nonce”. Probably old English.

He’ll “never” get the answer.

In computers, a nonce is a number used once and only once. Not less than once.

First google result:nonce1näns/adjective(of a word or expression) coined for or used on one occasion.“a nonce usage”There are other usages of the word as well.

FYI: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/nonce?s=t

I don’t think hyphenated words count either…

Isnt she a singer ,who is kinda popular with the younger set???

It is archaic but like the word moot (as in the point is moot) or deserts (as in “just deserts” – sounds like desserts but spelled like deserts) it does live on in one phrase and one phrase only – “for the nonce” as Ubintold said.

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And sometimes return, like the line in Born Yesterday, “You have no couth.”