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 ...

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.

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 ...