"Is is"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Brian Kilmeade, anchor on "Fox & Friends," 2 Aug 04:

"Isn't the good news is we've really got 'em now?"

Slip of the tongue?  Or a new syntactic twist on the "double is"?

BTW, I discussed "double-is" with my intro to linguistics class in November 2003, and none of the twenty-plus students were (consciously) familiar with the construction.

JL


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