While I completely agree with your argument, I looked up "Irregardless" in the book with all the words in it. It was there. Its definition was one word: regardless.

This post reminds me of a joke I probably heard on PHC.

An English professor was giving a lecture to a group of students when the topic of double negatives came up. He stated that using two negatives did, in fact, changes the context to a positive. Her then went on to say that this did not work with positives. "A double positive never makes a negative," he said.

From the back of the hall, a student could be heard saying, "Yeah... right."

What drives me crazy is "should have went" -or should "of"... past participle vs. past tense - do you say, "I should have was there"? No. You say, "I should have been there"... grrrrr....

Don't get me started on the misuse of "Begging the question!" Hearing or reading someone say, "It begs the question," and then following up with a QUESTION drives me nuts! These crazy words and misused phrases are so prevalent that they are slowly making their way into dictionaries! We are becoming a nation of illiterates.

One that really annoys me is "off of", as in 'he got off of the bus'. Why add 'of'? You don't say 'he got on of the bus'! 'He got off the bus' is both correct and more economical.

When someone says "so so and Myself", I have to grit my teeth.

I had 2 college science professors that used the word irregardless. To each I discreetly and anonymously left a note on their desks after class explaining the mistake.and why. I didn't hear it used after that but saw the educators eyes scanning the class for possible candidates. I have heard supposably instead of supposedly quite often. How about nuculear instead of nuclear? Poor George W.

I had 2 college science professors that used the word irregardless. To each I discreetly and anonymously left a note on their desks after class explaining the mistake.and why. I didn't hear it used after that but saw the educators eyes scanning the class for possible candidates. I have heard supposably instead of supposedly quite often. How about nuculear instead of nuclear? Poor George W.

You can't start a grammar war, it has to be a grammer war.

It still drives me nuts, "irregardless" that is, to hear otherwise educated people use the word, even after the grammar people added it officially to the dictionary. I used to take the English language seriously and look words up in the dictionary to make sure I was using words properly. Now I figure there isn't much point in doing so, because not many people give a damn and "they" will just add nonsensicle words to the lexicon after they become common enough that someone "in charge" of such things decides to make them officially acceptable anyway.

I am well aware languages evolve over time, but I didn't realize in my youth how quickly it happens, leaving people somewhat 'lost' well within the span of their lifetimes when trying to comprehend what the hell 'young' people are talking about. There's some great books on the topic, though, and there isn't much choice in the matter in the end, the 'whippersnappers' will win out in the end, and language will go on in whatever form the bulk of people using it see fit.

Other words get morphed or misused as well, of course, one of my pet peeves is the use of the word "like" as every 3rd or 4th word in a sentence, it's far worse than Oxford commas and the like, just a bloody useless addition to sentence structure that, if anyone did sentence trees anymore, would make an unholy mess of things in plotting out.

But such is the way of the world, I suppose.

You always break words down into there different parts ie ir, re, gard, less. re=do it again, gard= keep safe by standing over something/one, lees= not as much. I don't know what ir means. the word basically means guard it again but not so much as in keep in the bath regardless of where you may have to be or how cold it's getting. regardless means whatever happens your going to do the same thing your doing. not bad for a dyslexic.

My pet peeve - people who forget that predicate complements of infinitives of copulative verbs without expressed subjects go into the nominative case, whereas predicate complements of infinitives of copulative verbs with expressed subjects go into the objective case. For example, "I was thought to be he, but I thought Fred to be him"

It IS redundant. That's why it ain't no word!

The one that’s been getting under my skin lately is "A whole nother" because another is not a complete thought and needs to be qualified as a "whole". Oh and then I have a friend that is money obsessed, maybe this doesn’t belong here, but he constantly refers to "fuck-tons of money". I have no idea how much that is.

The word irregardless is redundant. It means regardless. It's not even really a word.

I got in trouble at my last job for such highfalootin' language as "indeed" and "such that." I am frequently--unfairly, infuriatingly--miscast as being "superior" or "talking down" to people when I'm just speaking naturally and spontaneously, with no agenda whatsoever. Not grammar-Naziing out. Not rolling my eyes when someone says "irregardless." Just talking, using the same kind of language I'm using now.

I guess most people, amazingly, don't check for secondary corroborating evidence (like tone, posture, gesture, facial expressions, context, etc.) before they tell themselves a story about a person's motivation or intention--at least, not when said story ameliorates their own bruised, insecure egos. Thus, I keep my mouth shut, mostly, IRL, these days.

Language changes. It's liquid. Beautiful. I can appreciate that now. I find it fascinating. But I still endeavor to use my language "correctly"--as it was taught to me in school, and as I developed my own understanding of it in adulthood through reading and writing.

"Irregardless" is just ignorant.

I'm gonna spread ambigardless around the internet until 13-year-olds start rolling their eyes and telling people what it means.

Let us start a grammar war, ? First rule, . Do not use abbreviations,

Pardon my French, but we speak proper fucking English here.

How you use grammar says a lot about who you are , where and how you grew up /were raised , and your educational level . The largest part of education is about learning and understanding words . And a lot of words are borrowed from other languages .

Those who use the word are unfearless.

Irregardless is not a word masquerading as a word. There are a lot of those. However, let us extend this a bit and look at some word combinations commonly used that should find their way to the nearest waste bin.

Free gift: I don't know who the copywriter was who coined this one, but he/she should have been shot.

"Continue on: ** There are a couple of instances where this is legitimate. The others are not.

... I would of ...: A case of writing something the way it often sounds when heard. The proper form is ... I would've ... There are many cases of this.

In good conscious: Conscience, man. Conscience.

In my humble opinion: This phrase was cliché and trite 50 years before I was born. It is also meaningless. One may have an opinion that is not expressed and that person may remain humble. In order to express an opinion says the person thinks what they have to say is something worth hearing, which is anything but humble.

Added bonus: This one is a beauty. "There are three kinds of people in this world. Those who understand math and those who don't."

The list is long. Have any favorites?

okay, let's run with this.... unirregardless. unirregardlessness, anti-unirregardlessness.

When people say granite instead of granted and supposebly instead of supposedly. Also when people say they did a 360 instead of 180!

Hate messing with grammar.

I don't care for the word. It is a bit confusion and I try to ask he speaker what her or she means to make sure I understand their intention. But at the end of the day is all about communication and it looks like this word is destined to be part of the normal lexicon irregardless of what I think

Don't get me started on flammable vs inflammable...