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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?

See Also:
Is 'Irregardless' a Real Word?
Definition of irregardless

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Monday July 13 2020, @03:24PM (11 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 13 2020, @03:24PM (#1020364) Journal

    Are you honestly telling me before today you did not know "irregardless" is a informal synonym of "regardless"?

    Yes.
    Nobody except some USians use it.

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  • (Score: 2) by EvilSS on Monday July 13 2020, @03:31PM (10 children)

    by EvilSS (1456) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 13 2020, @03:31PM (#1020379)
    How would you know that if you never heard of the word before?

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday July 13 2020, @03:39PM (9 children)

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 13 2020, @03:39PM (#1020388) Journal

      I can still RTFA and research around; is not a crime, is it?

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      • (Score: 2) by EvilSS on Monday July 13 2020, @03:48PM (7 children)

        by EvilSS (1456) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 13 2020, @03:48PM (#1020399)
        Just seems odd you managed to come to a research and come to a solid conclusion about the usage patterns of a word you literally only found out existed in the past 4 hours. In other words: I feel like you are lying to me here.

        • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday July 13 2020, @03:55PM

          by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 13 2020, @03:55PM (#1020406) Journal

          I feel like you are lying to me here.

          You can feel what you want.

          Here's one [soylentnews.org] - saying that's dialectal. By the number of outraged USians, I get that not all of them accept it.

          Here's another [lascribe.net] - no, it's not an eggcorn, even if it should.

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        • (Score: 3, Informative) by deimtee on Monday July 13 2020, @04:36PM (5 children)

          by deimtee (3272) on Monday July 13 2020, @04:36PM (#1020432) Journal

          Irregardless of what you say, I have to agree with c0lo that the word is not used here in Oz.

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          • (Score: 2) by EvilSS on Monday July 13 2020, @05:00PM (4 children)

            by EvilSS (1456) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 13 2020, @05:00PM (#1020451)
            Oz?

            • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Monday July 13 2020, @09:44PM (2 children)

              by MostCynical (2589) on Monday July 13 2020, @09:44PM (#1020734) Journal

              Oz.. short for "Australia", when pronounced with an "OZ traa lyn" accent (try not to open your mouth or move your tongue, to get the proper effect)

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              • (Score: 2) by EvilSS on Monday July 13 2020, @10:55PM (1 child)

                by EvilSS (1456) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 13 2020, @10:55PM (#1020803)
                Never heard of it, you sure that's really a word?

                • (Score: 2) by deimtee on Tuesday July 14 2020, @12:26AM

                  by deimtee (3272) on Tuesday July 14 2020, @12:26AM (#1020854) Journal

                  Yep.

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                  If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2020, @01:22AM

              by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2020, @01:22AM (#1020898)

              You gotta take one of those flying houses to get there.

      • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Monday July 13 2020, @09:40PM

        by MostCynical (2589) on Monday July 13 2020, @09:40PM (#1020731) Journal

        reading TFA may be a crime of some sort; even reading TFS is optional for some people.

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