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From: benson@dcdwest.UUCP (Peter Benson)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.nlang
Subject: Re: A whole nother story
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Date: Wed, 27-Mar-85 11:46:01 EST
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Summary: 

Rather than an infix, I think "a whole nother story" is an
example of "noncing".  Noncing is where a word is mis-divided
into its constituents, commonly in English on an 'n'.  Good
examples are "apron" <- "a napron", orange <- derived from
Arabic "naranj", and in the other direction, newt <- "an ewt",
nickname <- "an eke name".  So I would suggest "nother" <-
"an other".

A whole nother source for this phrase might be the "swooping"
phenomena so common in modern English.  This is where an
intensifier, like "fucking" gets swooped into a word or
phrase, as in "un-fucking-believable".

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