Irregardless is recognized by some dictionaries as a non-standard word. The nice way of saying its in common use, but isn't really a word�.
I've had this argument before--it's a legitimate word!
Sheesh,
Casey
OK, but what is it supposed to mean?????????????
Regardless!
Irregardless just has a useless extra syllable I suppose.
Enough to confuse folks though....
Casey
Amazing!
It's a well established convention in the English language that adding a prefix of 'ir' changes a word to it's opposite meaning. Now - apparently - some dictionary says that 'irregardless' means the same as 'regardless'.
The implications are mind-boggling. By the same token, can we now take it, for example, that 'irregular' means the same as 'regular', and 'irreversible' means the same as 'reversible'?
If this sort of butchering of English continues long enough it will become impossible to understand what the writer/speaker actually means!
