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Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by grokys on Monday December 15, 2014 @09:55AM (#8752236)
From wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonce_%28slang%29

>> In the United Kingdom, nonce is a slang word for a sex offender or child sexual abuser.

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Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by mattmanser on Monday December 15, 2014 @12:38PM (#8753156)
Nonce means mild idiot in my social circles. I wasn't implying they were a social offender. I wasn't even aware of its implications. Learn something every day.

I'd delete the comment but HN has got ridiculously militant about that now and I can't.

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