At 08:38 AM 6/23/2006, WANDA VANGOOR wrote:
>Yep--grew up with it (Kentucky and Texas) and still use it a lot! 
>"It's a whole nother thing" is the equivalent of "It's a whole 
>different thing."  And none of us would ever have said "It's another 
>whole thing."

DD: From the hills of East Tennesse, and all over the south in the 
1930s on. A few more syllables tucked in, or omitted, but I am more 
used to, "Tis a whole nother thing." or, "Itzuh whole nother 
thing."  In the dialects I grew up with stuck a lot of schwas in. 
Whole, nother and thing would end in a schwa. "Thing" has three syllables.

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