The other day I was trying to explain to a friend that I suspect that many people often say:
“…A whole nother…”
in place of:
“…A whole other…”
As in:
“That’s a whole nother ball game.”
Thinking about this had come to me in a daydream, by the end of which I was on trial for suspected Grammatical Treason. Do I say this sometimes? I’m waiting to catch myself or anyone else in the act, hopefully someone else. My friend who I was talking to pretended to have never heard such an expression. I just googled it. My friend was probably lying, as I suspected.
There’s a website dedicated to it called aWholeNother.com
If I find out that I say “Nother,” I will feel a bit disappointed in myself, then blame it on my heritage or something.
BTW
I totally embrace and love “Gonna,” and I want it to become part of formal English, along with all the normal, “legal” Contractions like “That’s”
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and wanna. and outa. and whatchya. but not whatcya wanna together (cuz that sounds to me like something someone in an early 90s movie would say. the charachter of “the kid” “the little rascal”.)