irregardless

Sounds like a Bushism although the etymology goes back a bit further. I don't mind this one actually. I don't have any trouble mentally editing it back to regardless.

Everything I've ever known tells me this is a non-word, but if it's spoken, it becomes a word, doesn't it? I have a dear friend who says it often, I thought she'd made it up, so here I've been better informed.

The word that is not a word.

Aw, man. Palooka, you're serious? *red pen in twitching hand*

Well, I guess yarb has a point. I admire your passion, if not the actual word, which feels like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.

I think one's piss is the coolest bodily fluid to boil in anger. Blood was the original, but "it makes my blood boil" became uncool - associated with old-fashioned moral rectitude. "Piss" is the modern, demotic version, for people who can't say anything without tacit self-deprecation. When you say something makes your piss boil, you're acknowledging the huffiness inherent in the precursor phrase. "Bile" has the virtue of variety but unfortunately quite a few people don't know what it is.

Anyhow, good luck with your campaign, palooka! You may be alone, but I admire your passion, irregardless.

*barfs*

Man, this is an endangered, beat down word! I'm starting the "Irregardless Preservation Society" to promote the acceptance & use of irregardless in our society. We will insist that no sentence containing the word irregardless will under any circumstances be erased, defaced or recycled until the population of irregardless words in the wild is stabilized & naturally begins to grow.

I urge all of you caring wordies to do your part to save irregardless!

That's a beautiful phrasing for feeling stabby, yarb.

It kind of makes my piss boil too. :)

P.S. why piss and not blood? Or hell--bile! "It makes my bile boil"? Come on, it's fun.

That's gotta hurt.

I hate this word! I see it all the time and it makes my piss boil!

Irregardless is my kind of word; it beautifully uncoils then strikes you with its impact, its payload of meaning. Regardless is just a word you happen to stumble over on the way to the rest of the sentence, though it's a perfectly good, functional word.
Irregardless of that, I respect your opinions.
Most of my lists are populated with mouthfeel words and/or words with poetic impact I think.

A "mouthfeel" list--that's a good idea!

Are there other words with the same "mouthfeel" that are as pretty to your ears, palooka?

Ditto that, sionnach. Sorry, palooka.

I would like to register my strong, but polite, disagreement with palooka. irregardless is an abomination.

Irregardless is a pretty word regardless of it's total lack of regard for formal usage.

Actually, in many languages, double negatives don't resolve to positive. This was true of English for a long time, although not really in modernity. In Spanish, double negatives are used frequently.

Regardless of what you have heard, “irregardless” is a redundancy. The suffix “-less” on the end of the word already makes the word negative. It doesn’t need the negative prefix “ir-” to make it even more negative.

That's it, I'm officially an anti-disirregardlessist.

Wow. Amazing. That one just makes your brain hurt.

It could be worse... My father claims to've had a drill sergeant in the army who used "disirregardless" with some frequency. (I'm not even listin' it... 8>)

Doesn't that just kill you, arby? You dislike a word so much that you have to put it on your "I Hate These Words" list, but you dislike it too much to have it show up as one of "your" words.

A Wordie conundrum.

See: http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/irregardless

I hate this fake-ass, non-word so much!! My boss used this while we were on a conference call, so I couldn't even subtly correct her!

PS I'm only "listing" it as my least favorite "word" ever!!

A friend on Flickr heard this monstrosity in a meeting. Interestingly, another Flickr friend heard it used during a conference call the same week. Worrying isn't it?

THIS WORD SUCKS! IT IS WRONG AND BAD!!!

Irregardless is so fantastically pleonastic!

Regardless is sufficient.