> “Irregardless” is not a word.
I used to drive my Dad nuts with my insistence in using Irregardless.
“No such word!” He’d fume.
“Sure there is,” I’d reply. “Irregard is the absence of Regard. Irregard-less means with even Less irregard than the normal amount...”
“No! No! NO!” the hapless English-teacher would fulminate at his smartass son...
Reminds me of a rant I went on once about someone who was continuously doing things that were unethical and not being punished for them.
I was thinking he was “without regard for the law” but I posted “he does blah blah blah *without* impunity!”
*Was my face red,* as Reader’s Digest might “say.”