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To: PHarris who wrote (5258)10/14/1998 10:36:00 AM
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irregardless (îr'î-gärd'lîs) adverb
Non-Standard.
Regardless.
[Perhaps from IR(RESPECTIVE) + REGARDLESS.]
Usage Note: The label Non-Standard does only approximate justice to the status of irregardless. More precisely, it is a form that many people mistakenly believe to be a correct usage in formal style but that in fact has no legitimate antecedents in either standard or nonstandard varieties. (The word was likely coined from a blend of irrespective and regardless.) Perhaps this is why critics have sometimes insisted that there is "no such word" as irregardless, a charge they would not think of leveling at a bona fide nonstandard word such as ain't, which has an ancient genealogy.

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