retitle 584076 move irregardless to -insane for wbritish, but keep it for wamerican tag 584076 - wontfix thanks
On Sat, 05 Jun 2010, Nick Phillips wrote: > On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 11:54 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > 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. > > All references I've seen seem to point to possible "validity" for > wamerican but not wbritish... It certainly seems to be more prevalent in en_US than en_GB. I think it does belong in wbritish, but perhaps only at the -insane level. [The OED indicates that it's primarily en_US and all of the quotes originate from en_US as well.] Don Armstrong -- S: Make me a sandwich B: What? Make it yourself. S: sudo make me a sandwich B: Okay. -- xkcd http://xkcd.com/c149.html http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
