Thread: In Defense of English
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Old 04-11-2009, 02:18 PM   #147
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Originally Posted by 6charlong View Post
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.
Bleh. All languages are flexible and have large vocabulary. There's nothing about English that is so superior to other languages.

If you have access to the Oxford English Dictionary, you will be able to find the word "nother".
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