any never vs none ever

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any never vs none ever

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Given: Any of us has never lied.
Question: Why not "Nobody/none of us ever lied" (as I would have said, being German...)

Thanks for enlighten me!
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Re: any never vs none ever

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You are quite right to doubt the sentence you have been given.

None of us has ever lied

is indeed the correct form!
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