irregardless

used by people who ignorantly mean to say regardless. according to webster, it is a word, but since the prefix “ir” and the suffx “less” both mean “not or with” they cancel each other out, so what you end up with is regard. when you use this to try to say you don’t care about something, you end up saying that you do. of course everyone knows what you mean to say and only a pompous,rude -sshole will correct you.
wife: “irregardless is not a word, dummy”
husband: “kiss my -ss b-tch! i’m still going to the strip club tonight!”
a word used by uneducated people intending to sound intelligent. often, the defendant will use this word in court in an attempt to impress the judge and jury. educated people notice and those who use this word instantly identify themselves to educated people as being uneducated. educated people rarely correct them because it helps educated people more easily identify them if they are well groomed.
uh… yes your honor…. irregardless of the the evidence, i was not the young man in the security video.
this is not a f-cking word… wtf
irregardless of what u think this is not a word.
an unnecessary mispr-nunciation of the word “regardless”.
guy 1: “irregardless of what people think”…

guy 2: (after punching guy 1 in the face) “say irregardless again! say it!”
a word you should never, ever use in front of your english professor.
student: “but irregardless of that–”
english professor: “-thwack-”
irregardless is an illegitimate word, you sh-tstains! putting the prefix ir before the word regardless effectively makes it a double negative; thus the meaning of the word becomes: “without without regard.” so instead of the intended meaning, which is without regard, it becomes just the opposite: with regard to!
irregardless is a non-word that many a tool mistakenly believe to be correct usage in formal style, when in fact it is used chiefly in nonstandard speech or uneducated writing. coined in the united states in the early 20th century, it has met with a blizzard of condemnation for being an improper yoking of irrespective and regardless and for the logical absurdity of combining the negative ir- prefix and -less suffix in a single term. although one might reasonably argue that it is no different from words with redundant affixes like debone and unravel, it has been considered a blunder for decades and will probably continue to be so.
“that stupid toolshed of a bartender is always using the non-word irregardless, thinking that he is impressing the ladies with his intelligence! personally, i think he should just stick to the steroids and shut his pie hole.”
the kind of thing dubya would say when he means to say “regardless”. its a b-st-rdized version of the word “regardless”, with an added superfluous “ir” added at the start. all you have to do is think about it logically to see that its not a grammatically correct word, just a mistake that unfortunetly became popular. you dont have to be a pompous or rude -sshole to correct someone, just somebody who thinks its important that they dont compromise the english language to cater for people who cant be -rs-d to do their english homework.

to be honest, i dont mind people using words like this in normal speech, but i cant stand to see it in print. people like journalists and authors, i believe, have a responsibility to be at least somewhat gramatically correct.
1. if you’re going to make a living from writing, then please make the effort to use real words instead of words like “irregardless” and “alot”.

other person: “alot of words are considered ungrammatical before they are sanctioned.”

me: “yes, and it’s a sad testiment to the quality of education in society when these mistakes are sanctioned!”

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