Eradicate the usage of "a whole nother"

The grammatical equivalent to “a whole nother” is “another whole,” as in: “I can’t keep this up for another whole year.” Also, in this context the word “whole” is redundant. If you didn’t meant an entire year you would have said a different time period. It would be ridiculous to assume someone meant 8 months by the phrase “another year.”

So yes there is a grammatical equivalent, but their both irrelevant phrases.

I’m an English teacher(ESL), and expressions that cannot be replaced by grammatically acceptable phrases are very worthwhile. Saying “I can’t keep this up for a whole nother year” for example has no real grammatical equivalent. We can’t say ”... a whole another year.” We need the word “nother” and it’s certainly not any worse than saying “yuck.”

I even heard Martha say “Well, that is a whole nother thing”. Which proves two things. First, she is not the grammar perfectionist that people would like to think she is. Second, that expression is incidiously part of the modern (low) vernacular. Yuck!