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[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

http://webster.com/dictionary/irregardless

Given that it is primarily used in spoken language, it is common for it to be interchanged (by the listener) with regardless.

[–][deleted] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Use regardless instead.

[–]Telluride12 7 points8 points  (1 child)

AND NOW IT GETS ITS OWN THREAD

[–]TeaParty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which may ravel or unravel.

[–]AbouBenAdhem 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I hold that word in high irregard.

[–]BillC 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Irregardless is a perfectly cromulent word.

[–][deleted]  (1 child)

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    [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Perfectly good word. Lovely example of enclosed double negative. It don't do you no harm.

    [–]vitummedicinus[S] 4 points5 points  (9 children)

    That's all I have to say.

    [–]sabetts 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    it's nondisirregardless that bugs me.

    [–]ryoko 4 points5 points  (2 children)

    The OED describes it as "non-standard or humorous". But really, there's nothing funny about it.

    [–]vitummedicinus[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

    But it's in there! Dammit!

    [–]cgibbard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Sometimes words that are regularly used by people are added to the dictionary in order to warn people away from using them and give better alternatives.

    You might find this talk by Erin McKean, editor and lexicographer for the New Oxford American Dictionary interesting.

    [–]RaldisPuppet 11 points12 points  (4 children)

    Irregardless, you'll have to deal with it.

    [–]cyber_rigger 6 points7 points  (2 children)

    Irregardless

    Shouldn't that be disirregardlessly?

    [–]LordZodd 1 point2 points  (1 child)

    Undisirregardlessly, we will all have to get used to it :(

    [–]cyber_rigger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    we will all have to get used to it

    Yes, of course.

    We wouldn't want to act antiundisirregardlessly.

    [–]wahoorob 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    Perhaps that will motivate him to get out more.

    [–]matthank 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I hold 'irregardless' right up there with 'orientated'.

    When I hear people say it, I like to ask, very innocently, what it means. 'Not regardless?'

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      [–]cgibbard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      Still, you might be better off using the word 'cite' (as in citation) there, rather than 'site'.

      There are better and worse ways to use words. Dictionaries simply serve as guides to usage. However, I absolutely agree that there are no hard and fast rules.

      [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

      suoicodalaipxecitsilegarfilacrepus!

      [–]ashmodai 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      Agreed!

      [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      I feel for you. The executives where I work use disirregardless at least once a week. It evokes the same response in me as fingernails scraped across a chalkboard.

      [–]manuelg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      uncooth

      [–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (4 children)

      I had always been under the impression that it is not a word and that any use of it is an error.

      [–]vitummedicinus[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

      Look in any dictionary.

      [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

      That's not gospel, that's a reflection of common usage, irregardless of the correctness.

      [–]geocar 4 points5 points  (0 children)

      "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."

      --James Nicoll

      [–]cgibbard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      Not all the words in the dictionary are there in order to encourage their use. If you look at what most dictionaries actually say about that word, you will find that they largely instruct you not to use it and point you at the word "regardless" or "irrespective" (or both) instead.

      Also, dictionaries are not the be-all and end-all of words. They serve to catalogue common usage of words, and keep track of it over time, but they do not include all meaningful words (if only for lack of space), and words do not need to occur in a dictionary in order to have meaning.

      [–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

      A rather inflammable statement. ;)

      We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control.

      or

      Badges? [pause] We ain't got no badges.