Comments on: NotPhrase: ‘A Whole ‘Nother Thing’ http://grammarsource.com/2007/10/31/notphrase-a-whole-nother-thing/ Bring your curiosity and questions about English and let's find answers Tue, 02 Aug 2011 10:37:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Terry Heathhttp://grammarsource.com/2007/10/31/notphrase-a-whole-nother-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-296 Terry Heath Sun, 04 Nov 2007 14:00:35 +0000 http://grammarsucks.com/notphrase-a-whole-nother-thing.htm#comment-296 So if it's the shortening of "another", 'nother would be used as: ""Nother thing, entirely."If it's "n'other", then of course it means "no other", and would be used "N'other thing, at all".But at any rate, if we didn't allow for our language to breathe and grow, writers like Chaucer and Shakespeare would be considered hacks with bad grammar for the changes they brought. So if it’s the shortening of “another”, ‘nother would be used as: “”Nother thing, entirely.”

If it’s “n’other”, then of course it means “no other”, and would be used “N’other thing, at all”.

But at any rate, if we didn’t allow for our language to breathe and grow, writers like Chaucer and Shakespeare would be considered hacks with bad grammar for the changes they brought.

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