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From: cjh@petsd.UUCP (Chris Henrich)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: A norange and a whole nother story.
Message-ID: <554@petsd.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 12:44:57 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 26 12:44:57 1985
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Summary: A notherex ample

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In article <2136@ut-sally.UUCP> riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) writes:
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>The word "another" has undergone/is undergoing a similar process.  One place
>you see evidence for it is in phrases like "a whole nother story;" you also
>see it in the writings of children and other people who haven't had spelling
>conventions throughly pounded into them, as in the epithet, "You're a
>nother!"

I once heard a mother say, jokingly, to her two rambunctious
little boys, "You're under arrest!"  Pretty soon, they were
using the phrase at each other, varying it with, "You're under
a *real* rest!"

Regards,
Chris

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