Tracy R Reed wrote:
James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
Stewart Stremler wrote:
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oh, are those seperate words your talking about?
No, they're separate words.
OK, I guess your write, after all.
You should not flame people irregardless of they're grammer. :)
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
irregardless
SYLLABICATION: ir·re·gard·less
PRONUNCIATION: r-gärdls
ADVERB: Nonstandard Regardless.
ETYMOLOGY: Probably blend of irrespective and regardless.
USAGE NOTE: Irregardless is a word that many mistakenly believe to be
correct usage in formal style, when in fact it is used chiefly in
nonstandard speech or casual 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.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth
Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the
Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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