Sarah,
My experience in Muncie suggests that “whole nother”
spreads well north of the Old
National Road. I’m from Michigan, by the way, and I’ve used it
as long as I can remember, not that a sample of one counts for much.
Herb
From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar
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Subject: Re: "To go" or
not "to go"
Ditto from central Indiana,
the state that linguistically divides right down its center line. "... A
whole 'nother thing" comes from south of U.S. 40.
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