Usage Note: It is widely asserted that none is equivalent to no one, and hence requires a singular verb and singular pronoun: None of the prisoners was given his soup. It is true that none is etymologically derived from the Old English word ān , "one," but the word has been used as both a singular and a plural since the ninth century. More @Wikipedia
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