Hello,

never forget: in a lot of dialects the double negation means not the strong affirmative, but a stronger negation, e.g. "no, sir, I never drank no beer today" as a Bavarian EM told me when questioned about drinking during his duty in the emergency platoon.

The greek word is definitely "litotes" in Greek, not litote. I checked both entries in dictionary.com and found 3 entries for litotes, only 1 for litote. I'm still marvelling why Princeton gives both forms - but who wants to be a Princeton man?

The Latin school where I took my final exam in Greek language and literature was founded in 1543 and they still swear that the correct form is litotes, as I read in every Greek or Latin Grammar in my school days.

Wilfried