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Originally Posted by 6charlong
I keep hearing and seeing--even here on Mobileread--a terrible travesty against English. At the risk of being flamed I'm posting to ask that it stop.
English is a flexible language with a very large vocabulary but it does not include the word "nother." If you need to use the word "another" please use it correctly. "Another" is a contraction of two words: "an" and "other." For example, you can write: "That is another whole story." You can even write: "That is a whole other story." But when you write or say: "That is a whole nother story," you torture the syntax of the language.
Please, everyone, unless you're Dick Cheney or somebody, please do not use that construction.
Thank you for your kind attention.
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If you think I'm gunna lis-tin to YOUSE!, you gotta whole NUTHA thought comin'!
