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From: zben@umd5.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Infix?
Message-ID: <593@umd5.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 18-Jun-85 18:14:21 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 18 18:14:21 1985
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Reply-To: zben@umd5.UUCP (Ben Cranston)
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Summary: A WHOLE NOTHER STORY

In article <668@lsuc.UUCP> msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader) writes:
>> >   As opposed to being "quite common", I can't think of any other
>> > word besides "fucking" that is inserted into another word (infix?).
>> > 
>> Here in England, 'bloody' is often used in this manner, e.g. 'too bloody 
>> right' or 'fan-bloody-tastic'
>
>Can all you people really not think of any other example whatsoever?
>                                                             ^^
>Mark Brader
>

Actually, now that I think about it, the granddaddy of all of these must
have been "that's a whole nother story", which I was using before I even
KNEW any cusswords...

For an interesting side topic, why is it "a whole nother" rather than the
more logical "an whole other"?  Perhaps because of the pain it causes to
say "an whole", and your amygdalus/angular gyrus rearranges the syllables
to shift the "n" from before the "whole" to after it?
-- 
Ben Cranston  ...{seismo!umcp-cs,ihnp4!rlgvax}!cvl!umd5!zben  zben@umd2.ARPA