"Irregardless"
Oct 31, 2020 08:12:20 #
LXK0930
Loc: Souh Jersey
DaveO wrote:
It has been an excepted word since the 1930's, but not preferred for use by many.
Excepted? Don't you mean Accepted?
Or am I missing the irony?
Oct 31, 2020 08:12:41 #
St.Mary's wrote:
That is so rong. Correct word is: Undisirregardless. What is the problem hear?
Know problum at awl their.
Oct 31, 2020 08:13:26 #
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Oct 31, 2020 08:16:03 #
SteveR wrote:
I thought it always was a word. Similar to inflammable and flammable.
Well, for all intensive purposes, I guess you’re right.
Oct 31, 2020 08:43:02 #
Oct 31, 2020 09:10:24 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Someone just told me that "irregardless" is now considered a proper word. Well, there goes the verbal neighborhood. Keep making a mistake long enough, and it will become correct. 
That's how coupon (koo' pon) became kyew' pon. now the morons don't have to feel so bad about themselves. LOL
Oct 31, 2020 09:24:24 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Someone just told me that "irregardless" is now considered a proper word. Well, there goes the verbal neighborhood. Keep making a mistake long enough, and it will become correct.
Right up there with "flounder" (a salt water fish) improperly used in place of "founder" (a ship losing control and about to crash onto rocks). It's been misused so long Webster added founder's definition to flounder.
Oct 31, 2020 09:35:15 #
Oct 31, 2020 09:58:33 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Someone just told me that "irregardless" is now considered a proper word. Well, there goes the verbal neighborhood. Keep making a mistake long enough, and it will become correct.
Irregardless, it's about time.
Oct 31, 2020 10:03:46 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Someone just told me that "irregardless" is now considered a proper word. Well, there goes the verbal neighborhood. Keep making a mistake long enough, and it will become correct.
Proper vocabulary follows usage otherwise we would all be speaking Latin or some other archaic language.
Oct 31, 2020 10:08:35 #
ottopj
Loc: Annapolis, MD USA
First, recorded use was in 1795 according to the Miriam-Webster dictionary. It probably was a blend of irrespective and regardless
Oct 31, 2020 10:10:59 #
joer wrote:
Proper vocabulary follows usage otherwise we would all be speaking Latin or some other archaic language.
If we were all speaking Latin it wouldn’t be archaic, would it?😳
Oct 31, 2020 10:28:44 #
Oct 31, 2020 10:36:49 #
StanMac
Loc: Tennessee
Longshadow wrote:
Don'tcha mean "couldn't care less"?
For sure! I don’t know why, but it just irritates me when people say that phrase wrong.
Another one is “Talk the talk and Walk the Walk”, when it should be “Talk the Walk, and Walk the Talk”, as in, “He doesn’t just talk the walk, he walks the talk”.
Stan
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