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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 sente
by 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 agoBesides 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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