Irregardless

When people use the non-word “irregardless” it makes my skin crawl. This word doesn’t exist, and if you look at the actual base word, adding ir– and –less just negate each other. Even without the –less, “irregard” isn’t a word. “Disregard” is, but then “disregardless” is not.

Abuse of this word is so common, that it is shocking how many people don’t realize that it’s wrong. I understand that some people just don’t care at all how they sound to others, but the people who do care: why have you let your grammar be tainted by this? Cull it from your vocabulary (while you can still call it a vocabulary) and simply use “regardless”. After all, it’s one of the two ways to negate the word “regard” with an affix, so MAKE SURE YOU USE IT RIGHT!

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