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The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word?

posted by Fnord666 on Monday July 13 2020, @11:53AM   Printer-friendly
from the First-to-Fall dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/06/887540598/the-debate-over-the-word-irregardless-is-it-a-word

All right. Let's settle something here. The word irregardless - is it a word or is it not a word? Well, this is a debate that Merriam-Webster is now weighing in on in a tweet saying that it is, in fact, a word. And that has led to a whole lot of reaction online.

Merriam-Webster has confirmed that "irregardless" is a word in the dictionary, despite concerns from teachers that it is not.

So fellow Soylentils, irregardless of my opinion, what do your think?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2020, @02:17PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2020, @02:17PM (#1020309)

    did you just key "orientated" into the typing plate of your computator?
    some of us are subject to pervertated brains that will illaboriously constructate wordings that you now have to contemplizate.

  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday July 13 2020, @03:09PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 13 2020, @03:09PM (#1020346) Journal

    If you've ever heard someone say Orientated, it's truly worse than typing it on the keyboard.

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