Kenneth MacKendrick wrote:
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> ** Sorry... I had just found out that irregardless isn't a real word... and
> was quite distraught.
:-)
Regardless of your source for this, and howsoever ill-bred "irregardless" might be, it has been used so often that, like that other imbecilic concoction "flammable," it is (unfortunately perhaps) now a real word.
We cannot escape history!
Carrol