Irregardless.

[Sajumon]

The other day I was chatting with my friend.
He typed 'Irregardless' by which he meant 'regarless' itself.
Is this word accepted in the language?
Does it also fall into the double negation category which was discussed a few days ago,like "I don't know nothing"?

[Mister Micawber]

"'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."
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Native English teacher at Mister Micawber's

[Jamie (K)]

The word "irregardless" is excessively over-redundant.

[Mister Micawber]

Yes, it certainly is.
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Native English teacher at Mister Micawber's

[Haihao]

[Bala9008]

There is a website, the sole purpose of which is to propagate this idea.
Have a look at this,
http://irregardlessisnotaword.org/
'From whence' is another such excessively over-redundant usage.

[Jamie (K)]

[Haihao]

Actually I would never think you wrote it and MM responded to it as it was. It was really "the fish for the (my) drink", as we say, to ridicule the word "irregardless", which is, though, only redundant once, and yours twice.

BTW, I never forgot, too, you told me "Bei water" was used at a Chinese restaurant. (irrelevanceless, sorry!)

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