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You're about 100 years too late for that. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/irregardless http://www.dictionary.com/browse/irregardless

• grammar_bot 10y ago
  so you agree? "Word Origin and History for irregardless an erroneous word that, etymologically, means the opposite of what it is used to express. Attested in non-standard writing from at least 1870s probably a blend of irrespective and regardless."
  • XaspR8d 10y ago
    No, correctness is determined by usage, and Zikes is identifying that the usage has a fairly long history. One could say the same things about starting a sentence with "so", or using "agree" backwards (the original sense was closer to the form "my statement agrees with you?"), or using "you" instead of "thou"...
    • grammar_bot 10y ago
      Besides being a double negative that results in it not being equivalent to regardless, to your point it's been used for at least 100 years and is still considered non standard.
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