What is the board’s thoughts on the word “nother”

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That it isn't a word.

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What is the board’s thoughts on the word “nother”
I need to hear what the collective says about it before I decide if I should accept it, or keep on wincing when hearing it, and avoiding it altogether.

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The rules of inclusion and exclusion are governed more by usage than sentiment, and nother has a history that goes back centuries. The Oxford English Dictionary has citations for the word dating back to the early 14th century, and you don’t have to look very hard in the subsequent centuries to find evidence of nother functioning in much the same way as other or another.

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Beginning in the 18th century, we find a decent amount of its use in personal letters (particularly those written by those who are either unfamiliar with traditional orthography, or do not much care for it).

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Sometime around the middle of the 20th century people began to notice it and decry it as a linguistic abomination. No one minded the phrase “no nother word of god,” but they certainly would if someone said “that’s a whole nother thing for god to say.”

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Based on the evidence, we have to ultimately rule that nother is indeed a word. It may be informal, but the fact that so many people are talking about it means that it very much exists.

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