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Whole 'nother?
All my life I've heard and used the expression "that's a whole 'nother story". An example is when you're talking about something and then you don't feel like getting into the details, you say "But that's a whole 'nother story."
Only when it comes time to actually write that phrase does it strike me that "nother" isn't a word in itself (is it?)
Have I just been hearing the expression wrong all this time? What is the correct expression? I can't be the only one who has heard or used this.
Thanks!
4 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
You heard correctly. It's a colloquialism, a lazy way of saying "whole other".
- Catie ILv 51 decade ago
It is a colloquialism which is an expression or characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. That is to say this phrase is and was used in the Southern US a lot and it means that there are two stories. One the story that is being told now, and the 'other' story which will be told at a later time.
"My daddy went to war, but that is a whole 'nother story."
- ruth4526Lv 71 decade ago
It is an old expression It is actually. A whole other story. Meaning someone is telling something and something else comes up and they say that is a whole other story and ignore it or tell the other story later.
