While off for the holiday yesterday, I witnessed a spasm of dictionary panic online, after someone discovered that Merriam-Webster includes irregardless in its dictionaries. Responses varied: [Gasp] ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
Aside from my personal mission to convince the planet that Mark Morrison’s “Return of the Mack” is the greatest song of all time, the only other conversation I feel super passionately about is about ...
For some reason, people have been posting on social media recently that Merriam-Webster has decided to accept irregardless as a synonym for regardless. Many people would say that irregardless is a ...
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 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 ...