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nonstandard : REGARDLESS
usage: Irregardless originated in dialectal American speech in the early 20th century. Its fairly widespread use in speech called it to the attention of usage commentators as early as 1927. The most frequently repeated remark about it is that "there is no such word." There is such a word, however. It is still used primarily in speech, although it can be found from time to time in edited prose. <font color=red>Its reputation has not risen over the years, and it is still a long way from general acceptance. Use regardless instead. </font>
Originally posted by Dirty
Is RUINT a word?
NO more than SCREET, SCRIMP, ERNGE and ERIONOriginally posted by Dirty
Is RUINT a word?
Originally posted by Dirty
Is RUINT a word?
Originally posted by Seeing Spots
How about a lady in the beauty shop said she was putting on her scarf because it was cold out there and she didn't want to get LEUKEMIA!!!!!!!!!!! I'm sure she meant pneumonia.
Originally posted by Panthro
the Microsoft (r.) corporation deemed it acceptable in their Microsoft Word product (c. 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001).
Go to MS Word and check out spell checker. If the <b>programmers</b> made it acceptable for galaxy-wide distribution, then it's okay w/ moi. It's the Microsoft/IBM/Lucent/* standard vs the King's English standard .
Seriously, I know we need standards and guidelines to follow, but, in studying languages in the past, one of the things that I found out was that someone said something and it's popular and wide use caused it to go from a local/regional word to an accepted "norm" of sorts. Just look @ how pronunciations have evolved due to nasals or "mispronunciations." Case in point, the Latin word <i>tu</i>, sounds like a word where if the ancestry was drunk as all "L" out, they could EASILY mispronounce and say "you," "vous," "du" (sounds like do) and our genre have evolved that to "bu" :emlaugh: (sounds like 'boo') - i.e., <i>Come hea bu. That's my bu...:idea: :emlaugh:... Come hea you. Come hea tu. </i>
I'm rambling and sleepy as hell. IRREGARD ~snickle~ what I just typed up there ^^^^^^^^^^. LOL