To hear linguist Richard Ingham tell it, the double negative wasn’t nothing unusual in the history of the English language. In a revealing study in the current issue of Language Variation and Change, ...

In this perplexing, 24-hour-news-cycle-reality-show world in which I find myself, I tend to react to current events as if they were background noise that only occasionally comes to the surface of my ...

Putting aside politics for a second (as far as that’s possible when discussing the POTUS), Donald Trump’s recent assertion that a “double negative” is the same as a “positive” isn’t entirely incorrect ...

Jagger either getting satisfaction or not getting none of it in 1980 Donald Trump got the world talking about double negatives as he tried to clarify controversial remarks he made in Helsinki. But ...

There is an old joke:<BR><BR>A linguistics professor told his class "in English, a double negative forms a positive. In some languages though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative.

DEAR WORD COURT: Shakespeare's famous Sonnet 116, comprising the most perfect lines of iambic pentameter ever penned, concludes with the couplet: "If this be error ...

Rob Pensalfini has received funding from a variety of bodies including the Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Queensland, the Brisbane City Council, and the Australian Research Council. He is ...

When popular musician, Tuface Idibia (2Baba), intensely apologised to his wife, Annie, and his other loved ones a few days ago, he predictably ignited a controversy. Soberly, he told his family that ...