Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site petsd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!hoxna!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!petsd!cjh 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 Article-I.D.: petsd.554 Posted: Wed Jun 26 12:44:57 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Jun-85 07:31:51 EDT References: <14800002@ism70.UUCP> <394@bu-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: cjh@petsd.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) Organization: Perkin-Elmer DSG, Tinton Falls, N.J. Lines: 22 Summary: A notherex ample [] In article <2136@ut-sally.UUCP> riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) writes: ... >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 -- Full-Name: Christopher J. Henrich UUCP: ..!(cornell | ariel | ukc | houxz)!vax135!petsd!cjh US Mail: MS 313; Perkin-Elmer; 106 Apple St; Tinton Falls, NJ 07724 Phone: (201) 758-7288