Post using your bad English pet peeve.

This thread is two lame irregardless of what you think.
It has been done so many times it is now mute.


As funny as this may be, "irregardless" has been used so often, it is now accepted as part of common vernacular.




Regardless of it's acceptance, I still have to fight the urge to punch in the face people who use it.
 
According to the dictionary people, this goes back to 1976.

Irregardless: Regardless
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition, 2018

Irregardless: In nonstandard or humorous use: regardless.
The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, 1976

Irregardless: without attention to, or despite the conditions or situation; regardless
Cambridge Dictionary (dictionary.cambridge.org), 2018



The word appeared in print as early as 1795.
 
As funny as this may be, "irregardless" has been used so often, it is now accepted as part of common vernacular.




Regardless of it's acceptance, I still have to fight the urge to punch in the face people who use it.

Defintion


Irregardless -

Not regarding the regard of the retard that doesn't regard the regardless, is irregardless.
 
As funny as this may be, "irregardless" has been used so often, it is now accepted as part of common vernacular.


Yes, that's what I'm afraid of. Especially with "literally." If literally doesn't mean in fact with no hyperbole, metaphor or simile, what word will take it's place?
Regardless of it's acceptance, I still have to fight the urge to punch in the face people who use it.
I literally have punched a million people for that, but mentally.
 

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