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, ...

Reader David Bruun wanted to talk about double negatives. I'm not uninterested in the topic, so here goes: "I was listening to the radio several days ago, and a Realtor was being interviewed as to ...

This has become the double-negative election. Most Americans consistently say in polls that they believe that President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats have mismanaged crime, the border, and, ...

A comment I made at a Clark County School Board meeting last week has prompted some feedback over the grammatical incorrectness of the double-negative statement (Sunday letter). The comment attributed ...