Saturday, December 20, 2008

A New Word for the Dictionary?

I was reprimanded today for not keeping up my blog. :) I know it is so annoying that I don't post often. I'm going to try to do better.

I've been thinking about this for a while. Have you seen the Circuit City ad where the lady is talking to this huge camera? She says something like, "I don't understand. You have one price online and a whole nother price in the store?" Now, as far as I know, nother is not a word. I say it all the time. I heard someone say it today when I was at book club. I only noticed because I've been thinking about it since I've seen that commercial. I think it's pretty common and I don't even notice it usually, but it really stuck out to me in this commercial.

Hold on. Wait a minute. As I was rambling on about nother not being a real word I thought I'd check just to make sure. There it was on dictionary.com! It is classified as "informal" but it is there. Well. Now I can say it without a second thought. It makes me feel free in a way.
(This is one of my dumbest posts yet, but since I took the time to type it out, I'm going to post it.)

4 comments:

Sandy said...

Just because it is in the dictionary does not mean it is proper. It just means it is a word.
Come on Utah!?

Tamara said...

I think it is a great post and I have never thought of it. I just assumed you could right it like 'nother or something. You know because we American's are lazy in our speech.

Julie J. said...

Hey, did I say it?... Because I'm not sure, but I think I do sometimes... I also say gunnu instead of going to. It drives Matt crazy.

Kim said...

It wasn't you.