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From: bob@cadovax.UUCP (Bob "Kat" Kaplan)
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Subject: A whole nother story
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Date: Fri, 22-Mar-85 12:58:14 EST
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From ck@ima.UUCP:
> Why should anybody expect today's students to learn proper grammar
> when they are exposed to improper grammar everywhere they go?
> [...]
> Take, for example, the phrase "a whole nother," as in "that's a
> whole nother story."  I have heard this countless times, and I
> cringe every time.

When I was in college, I had a linguistics professor who used the
phrase "a whole nother."  Other than that, he was a great professor
and it was a fascinating class (diachronic linguistics).  This class
and a few others almost caused me to change my major to linguistics,
but that's a whole nother story.
-- 
Bob Kaplan

"Where is it written that we must destroy ourselves?"