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Bookmark or Share- "On the one/other hand" vs. "on the one/other side"I think "on the one side" is even more rare than the Ngram indicates. Leafing thru the hits, many examples don't fit this context (e.g., "six cubits wide on the one side," or, "the join fields on the one side of a one-to-many relationship," or, "every advantage gained on the one side would be a disadvantage on the other.").
- "One-to-one" vs. "one-on-one" - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeYou may use one-to-one when you can identify a source and a destination. For eg., a one-to-one email is one sent from a single person to another, i.e., no ccs or bccs. In maths, a one-to-one mapping maps one element of a set to a unique element in a target set. One-on-one is the correct adjective in your example
- Difference between "one..., another" and "one..., the other"Now it is possible to think that there are just two directions - e.g. left or right. So using that rationale it would be "one or the other". However if you postulate many directions e.g. north, south, east, west, north-west, south-east etc then it woul be "one or another (an other)" –
- Is the possessive of "one" spelled "ones" or "one's"?Indefinite pronouns like one and somebody: one's, somebody's. The possessive of the pronoun one is spelled one's. There are many types of pronouns. Unfortunately, people explaining the mnemonic for remembering the spelling of its sometimes over-simplify and say something like "it doesn't have an apostrophe because it's a pronoun, like his or her".
- "noone", "no one" or "no-one"? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange"no one" is the correct one. noone is the common misspelling of "no one". "Noone" is formed for consistency with "nobody", and also its opposites "anyone" and "everyone", but it is still considered nonstandard because of the doubled vowels creating a temptation to read and pronounce it as "noon" (/nuːn/).
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