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Irregardless

Irregardless: regardless that people rail against irregardless as being a non word, it has by the shear volume of people railing against it become a word regardless. And if it doesn't exist why are so many people paying attention to it spending their precious time on something that doesn't exist. Seems strange to me though that over the course of the computer age (still going) thousands of words that did not exist before have been added to the dictionary as being words. And as well the thousands of made up words that didn't exist before some movie or TV show are now in our vocabulary. Regardless of what anyone thinks, irregardless now exists as a word. Noting too that even spell check as I type this doesn't recognize irregardless as being misspelled.

Irregardless of what you think irregardless has become a word.

by The "Q" July 17, 2022


irregardless

Portmanteau of "irrespective" and "regardless", likely used mistakenly rather than deliberately. While technically this could be a meaningful term directly, due to the double negative of ir- and -less this would make this mean the opposite of the terms that form it, which is never the intent when used.

a lot of people hate it, but people use this term irregardless

by derynsystem July 30, 2020