The Merriam-Webster Dictionary wasn't having a bar of it, putting the argument to bed irregardless of what social media's grammar police do or say.
Loading Twitter contentdating back to the 1870s"We label this word 'nonstandard.' This does not mean that it isn't a word, or that it is a bad word," Merriam-Webster says.Merriam-Webster ruled that irregardless and regardlessand that the only significant difference in the use of the two is that "no one much cares when you use 'regardless,' but people like to shriek and guffaw when you use 'irregardless'.
"You can ask why we define this word, whether there are other similar constructions in English, or if it's acceptable for you to use it," it said. "Or you can simply shriek into the void about the cruelty of a world in which language does not follow the rules you think it should."in 2020 explaining to a "small and police group of people" why it defines the word irregardless.. Simple as that."If we were to remove irregardless from our dictionary it would not cause the word to magically disappear from the language; we do not have that kind of power.
"Our inclusion of the word is not an indication of the English language falling to pieces, the educational system failing, the work of the cursed Millennials, or anything else aside from the fact that a lot of people use this word to mean "regardless," and so we define it that way.
It is, however, included in one of America's most pivotal pop culture products, so make of that what you will:
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