However, the definition for "irregardless" has been included in Merriam-Webster's Unabridged edition since 1934. In early July 2020, social media users asked Snopes.com to verify whether it was true ...

“Irregardless” was not just added to the dictionary. As Peter Sokolowski, editor at large for Merriam-Webster, tweeted in response to Chelsea Handler’s complaint, “irregardless” has “Been sitting ...

Dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster drew the internet’s ire earlier last week when it included the word “irregardless” in its “Words of the Week” newsletter and explained that, despite the objections ...

After years of improper usage by people who failed English class, Merriam-Webster officially recognized “irregardless” as a word by including it in the latest edition of their famed (and increasingly ...

As a former high school English teacher, I have been known to be a bit of a stickler for proper word usage and grammar. Now, I’m not one of those people who will correct everyone’s posts on social ...

Merriam-Webster raised the hackles of stodgy grammarians last week when it affirmed the lexical veracity of "irregardless." The word's definition, when reading it, would seem to be: without without ...

Merriam-Webster has confirmed that "irregardless" is a word in the dictionary, despite concerns from teachers that it is not. All right. Let's settle something here. The word irregardless - is it a ...

English majors, writers, word snobs, wordsmiths and general word nerds: I am about to turn your world upside down. I mean completely around and then upside down, like that Zipper carnival ride that ...

It’s happened again. An armchair language expert has declared a word to not be a word. She didn’t look up the word. She didn’t even look up the word “word.” If she had, she’d know that “shizzleschlep, ...

Grammarians are up in arms over dictionaries including "irregardless." The Merriam-Webster dictionary responds: "We do not make the English... Regardless Of What You Think, 'Irregardless' Is A Word ...