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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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Is 'Irregardless' a Real Word?
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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday July 13 2020, @03:40PM (3 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday July 13 2020, @03:40PM (#1020390)

    Are you attributing the "proper" spelling to a senile old man's fumble-finger tweet? I hope it takes more than that to coin a new word.

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  • (Score: 1) by hemocyanin on Monday July 13 2020, @06:34PM (2 children)

    by hemocyanin (186) on Monday July 13 2020, @06:34PM (#1020560) Journal

    Apparently it does not. I'd bet at least half the population has heard of covfefe by now. Problem is definition though.

    • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday July 13 2020, @06:37PM

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday July 13 2020, @06:37PM (#1020563)

      If I were Webster, I'd wait for both definition to emerge, and for the Great Cheeto to get out of the headline cycle before deciding that the word has "stuck." Otherwise, they'd be off chasing Urban Dictionary trends...

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    • (Score: 2) by http on Monday July 13 2020, @10:38PM

      by http (1920) on Monday July 13 2020, @10:38PM (#1020790)

      "I'm running low on adderall"

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