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Back to the original post, I actually quite like 'nother', but only when it's used tongue-in-cheek. It probably originated as a joke to begin with (I was reminded of the very elegant turn of phrase which was common, historically, in the Southern states of America when I watched "Ride with the Devil").
The only real problem with substantial changes in idiom, grammar and spelling across the whole English language, is that it will make the majority of recent literature inaccessible to future readers. (And I've studied Old and Middle English in University, so I know how far a language can drift...)
And as for American spelling without the 'u'... I personally used to find it perplexing: I would always read 'labor' and hear lah-borr rather than lay-burr in my mind... I'm used to it now, of course.
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