英语词汇ain’t never seen no men-folks of no kind do no washing nohow的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	ain’t never seen no men-folks of no kind do no washing nohow
词源	ain’t never seen no men-folks of no kind do no washing nohow. A forceful example of the use of the double negative heard in the Ozark mountains. Though considered ignorant to- day, such double negatives have strong links with Elizabethan England, when the double negative was simply employed as a stronger, more effective negative. Shakespeare, in fact, wrote: “Thou hast spoken no word all this while, nor understood none neither.”
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