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 ...

Those of us who learned about double negatives in grammar class understood them as grammatical no-nos. You were not to say, “I don’t have no bananas,” because, by denying the absence of bananas, you ...

Today, class, we are going to talk about “double negatives,” because how could I not not do it? A “double negative,” according to Dictionary.com, is “a syntactic construction in which two negative ...