"a whole nother"

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:34 AM -0400 9/28/05, sagehen wrote:
>  Heard on  BBC's "World Update" this morning, in a report on Israeli
>reaction to rocket fire from Gaza,  correspondent Alan Johnson  used the
>expression "a whole nother"  [ level of &c.... ].
>I think there was some discussion of this type of word use on the list
>recently but have forgotten what term describes it.
>A. Murie

My vote was for "reanalysis" (or "metanalysis"), as in the "an ewt" >
"a newt" family of cases.  (Not infixation, since this is the only
context in which the "infix" _nother_ would occur.)

Larry