severity 584076 minor
tag 584076 wontfix
thanks

On Tue, 01 Jun 2010, Nick Phillips wrote:
> "irregardless" is not a word and should not be included in word
> lists which might be used to verify whether or not any given word is
> valid.

Irregardless is a word, but happens to be one which makes no
grammatical sense and thus whose usage is nonstandard.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irregardless, etc.


Don Armstrong

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