a whole nother

[sagehen]

>And here's a whole nother reason it can't (read "shouldn't") be infixing
>in English: it would be the only case I can think of in which a proposed
>infixing would end up generating an interposing -- another infixed as a
>whole nother ends up becoming a phrase, "a whole nother," in which whole
>is interposed. I would never say that it couldn't happen (always unwise to
>say), but given our current expectations it shouldn't happen -- should it?
>Can anyone think of another example?
>
>~ Michael
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My impression is that most of the times I hear it, it is delivered with a
certain jocularity or wryness of tone. Wouldn't that have some implications
affecting its evolutionary diagnosis?
AM

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