Skip to main content
Help Center Community Shop

Marriam Webster just officially recognized

asop
"IRREGARDLESS" as a word ;)
 
0

Comments

27 comments

Date Votes
  • kannoneer
    Still doesn't make it right. What is next? Alright?
    0
  • varian
    makes no sense cant be a word, just because uneducateds use it :D
    0
  • Mr. Perfect
    The argument that a word is a word with a standard meaning because of usage is spurious.
    0
  • austin20

    Ain’t rite

    3
  • bpost
    How about a byte and a bit?  Words evolve.  A Quark is a particle, a part of an atom, it was never known years ago.  Irregardless is just another one added to our long list of words that have evolved over time.
    0
  • jimdeere
    That just flustrates me.
    3
  • chme
    And a half a byte is a nybble.....irregardless.
    3
  • Okie
    Have they removed the words RESPECT and MORALS yet?
    Seems not many know the meaning of such now days.
    6
  • KenK/84Bravo

    Now we gotta work on disirregardless.

    3
  • nononsense
    My guess is that the version named in the title is fraudulent. The name is spelled wrong:
    Showing results for Merriam Webster (correct)
    Instead of for Marriam Webster shown in the title of the post(fraudulent)
    Best.

    0
  • Henry0Reilly
    https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/is-irregardless-a-real-word-heh-heh 

    0
  • SCOUT5
    Language is ever evolving.  Those that do not understand or accept that are either in denial or ignorant.
    0
  • Rocky Raab
    Language does evolve, but that does not mean it can frivolously embrace the ignorant. "Irregardless" is a double negative, and thus negates itself. It is as ignorant as saying "I didn't do nothing."
    0
  • Smitty500mag
    I dindu nuffin is the correct way instead of I didn't do nothing. 
    0
  • bpost
    Rocky Raab said:
    Language does evolve, but that does not mean it can frivolously embrace the ignorant. "Irregardless" is a double negative, and thus negates itself. It is as ignorant as saying "I didn't do nothing."

    It is supposed to be; "I din do nuffin". ;)B)
    0
  • NeoBlackdog
    In the end it ain't gonna matter none at all.
    0
  • jimdeere
    An old man I worked with used a term “juberous” in the context similar to reluctant or hesitant. 
    I’ve never seen or heard of the term. 
    0
  • NeoBlackdog
    jimdeere said:
    An old man I worked with used a term “juberous” in the context similar to reluctant or hesitant. 
    I’ve never seen or heard of the term. 
    Sho' 'nuff!
    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/juberous#:~:text=(r)s%20%5C-,Definition%20of%20juberous,%3A%20doubtful%20and%20hesitating%20%3A%20dubious
    0
  • SCOUT5
    The phrase "not without regard" has it's place.   Using one word in the place of a phrase is common in language.  People using the word out of context doesn't negate the propriety of the word, it simply means it was used out of context.
    3
  • Rocky Raab
    True enough, Scout5. BUT, if you look at the context in which people use "irregardless" you'll note that what they mean is "without regard." In fact, they are saying the opposite, just like the dindu nuffins.

    (I chose to ignore your incorrect apostrophe. I make the same damn error myself sometimes.)
    0
  • kimi
    Sounds right to me, but my folks picked their own cotton. 
    3
  • yoshmyster
    Irregardless the meaning, the spell check here is trying to make me correct it.
    0
  • Don McManus
    Sounds right to me as well, kimi, but my folks ground their own dirt.

    Don

    3
  • spasmcreeksrun
    when will the demands resound from sea to sea that the word   WHITE   be removed from the dictionary 
    0
  • William81
    I am :# flustrated by this....but I am to Hangry to think about it right now.......
    3
  • MrMag00
    I don't mind new words, but changing the definition of a word is criminal. 
    0
  • Old-Colts
    Facepalm; I guess "congradulation" is next!  :D  
    0

Please sign in to leave a comment.

Recent Activity