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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: 3, Interesting) by acid andy on Monday July 13 2020, @04:19PM (4 children)

    by acid andy (1683) on Monday July 13 2020, @04:19PM (#1020419) Homepage Journal

    That's what confuses me. If the infinitive is "to orient", shouldn't that then be "oriention" (which is quite hard to say)?

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday July 13 2020, @04:32PM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 13 2020, @04:32PM (#1020431) Journal

    shouldn't that then be "oriention"?

    With irregardless being a word... you still expect something logical from the English language?
    (and don't get me started on spelling. Many other countries/languages with sane spelling rules don't waste their kids time with spelling-bees and such non-senses, a time that can be put to better uses)

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    • (Score: 3, Touché) by acid andy on Monday July 13 2020, @05:21PM (1 child)

      by acid andy (1683) on Monday July 13 2020, @05:21PM (#1020486) Homepage Journal

      With irregardless being a word...

      It isn't! ; P Not a proper one, anyway.

      you still expect something logical from the English language?

      It's more a wish than an expectation really.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2020, @08:22PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2020, @08:22PM (#1020649)

    Past perfect partiple: "Orientated: the state of having been oriented." Perfect tense seems to be disass-pearing in English. Recently it is alway "pleaded" instead of "pled", in contexts where a past perfect is preferable to a plate of peonies, or a simple past.