The continuing debate on one vocabulary word
A tweet has stirred up a hornet's nest of diatribes (twitter storms) on an irksome vocabulary word. I remember it being vilified when I was a whippersnapper, long before twitter was ever conceived.
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/06/887540598/the-debate-over-the-word-irregardless-is-it-a-word
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Just shooting from the hip, the caption to that audio bit says it is "in the dictionary". What dictionary? That the writer has no idea that there is no such thing and seems willing to bow to unknown authority, I cannot lend him enough credence to so much as waste my time on him.
- Just shooting from the hip, the caption to that audio bit says it is "in the dictionary".
- What dictionary?
- That the writer has no idea that there is no such thing and seems willing to bow to unknown authority, I cannot lend him enough credence to so much as waste my time on him.
- "Irregardless" is in the full OED with the note "Chiefly North American.
- " It is an illiterate mistake when not used for effect.
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Just shooting from the hip, the caption to that audio bit says it is "in the dictionary". What dictionary? That the writer has no idea that there is no such thing and seems willing to bow to unknown authority, I cannot lend him enough credence to so much as waste my time on him.
"Irregardless" is in the full OED with the note "Chiefly North American. In nonstandard or humorous use
0If you're taking a poll, put me down as saying, prescriptively, that irregardless should not be used regardless of which dictionaries may list it.
I once had a manager at work who used it all the time. She wasn't the brightest bulb in the chandelier in other respects, so I figured ho-hum, whatever. No surprises there. It's not worth going to the cross over.
CJ
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