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To: JoeSixPack1
You need to go back to school, bub. There's NO SUCH WORD as irregardless. The correct word is regardless.
44 posted on 05/08/2002 1:44:56 PM PDT by Puppage
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To: Puppage
ir·re·gard·less Pronunciation Key (r-gärdls) adv. Nonstandard

... Regardless.

[Probably blend of irrespective, and regardless.]

.... Usage Note: Irregardless is a word that many mistakenly believe to be correct usage in formal style, when in fact it is used chiefly in nonstandard speech or casual writing. Coined in the United States in the early 20th century, it has met with a blizzard of condemnation for being an improper yoking of irrespective and regardless and for the logical absurdity of combining the negative ir- prefix and -less suffix in a single term. Although one might reasonably argue that it is no different from words with redundant affixes like debone and unravel, it has been considered a blunder for decades and will probably continue to be so.

Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

Who cares? Now go away and get a life. And maybe someday you too can learn to live with others.

75 posted on 05/08/2002 2:19:31 PM PDT by JoeSixPack1
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To: Puppage
There's NO SUCH WORD as irregardless.

'Irregardless' is in my Webster's, but is considered non-standard usage of 'regardless.'

122 posted on 05/08/2002 4:02:50 PM PDT by scholar
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