"A Whole Nother Level"

Let me be perfectly clear... "nother" is not a word in the English language! "Mother", is in fact a word. As is the word "another". But those who use the word "nother" are simply talking trash.

Recently, I've heard a few people describing someone's basketball game or workout as "going to a whole nother level". This really bothers me! Why can't they just say the word "higher", as in "His game has gone to a higher level". Or they could say "to the next level".

This may all seem trivial to the reader(s) of my blog. They may feel as though there are bigger fish to fry in the world right now... I don't care! I had something that has been troubling me lately, and felt a need to get it off my chest before nother day goes by!