Today’s Bizarro: The construction in You (don’t) know diddly / squat / diddly-squat (about NP) has in fact caught the attention of linguists. In a Language Log posting on swearing a while back, I referred to the analysis of NPs like (doodly) squat, (jack)shit, and fuck(-all) in sentences like You (don’t) know jackshit about linguistics … Continue reading diddly squat