Comments on: A very SCARY word!

By: leonard

leonard — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:07:06 +0000

my random…[avant-gaurd] or [avantdarde] or avant guard……….eire?/?… Abstract or collective

By: BlueTiger

BlueTiger — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:34:01 +0000

I don’t have no problem with “irregardless” being recognized as a real word! (And I mean that literally.)

By: parthenophilast

parthenophilast — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:56:04 +0000

Yes, irregardless should be considered a word. The fact of the matter is that languages change over time. How many of you say “dial” the number, even though hardly anyone uses the old rotary phones anymore? The meaning of the word “dial” has changed and so has the meaning of the prefix “ir-.”

By: Evan Owen

Evan Owen — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:10:05 +0000

Of COURSE it’s a scary word! It’s “eerie” + “guardless,” meaning you have no guard against what’s eerie and coming for you!!!

By: leonard

leonard — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:55:54 +0000

non standard form of regardless for the end times and that is very long time

By: adamito

adamito — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:50:07 +0000

Irregardless should NOT ever ever be a word along with “whole ‘nother”. Where do these idiotic colloquialisms start? AAARAGH? It is a scary word, it makes me cry.

By: gooofy

gooofy — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:00:57 +0000

If Marina doesn’t like the word, fair enough. But she of all people should know that language changes, and that the etymologies of many words are based on mistakes or misunderstandings.

Of course “irregardless” should be in dictionaries. And it’s been in dictionaries for a long time: it first appeared in The American Dialect Dictionary in 1912. Dictionaries are not reserved for the best words, or the words Marina likes. Dictionaries do not judge. They record the most common words that readers are likely to encounter.

“irregardless” is not the only word of its kind. In the 17th century, words like unboundless, undauntless, uneffectless, unfathomless were very common.

By: hutchiee

hutchiee — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:23:20 +0000

I used to think the reiterate was one of the worst double-words, but irregardless also makes me cringe. Rather than petition against it’s inclusion in the dictionary, why not petition for it’s proper definition in the dictionary. If w00t can be added I’m sure this will.

Hey, how about reiterate for your next word? Let me reiterate, how about reiterate for your next word how about reiterate for your next word.

By: tedt

tedt — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:30:44 +0000

The video makes me angry……sort of

By: snakebyte42

snakebyte42 — Thu, 15 May 2008 10:55:30 +0000

Okay, gonna address the below comments in order because I know some of them, then make my own

vezen: Irrigation is ‘irrigate’ and ‘tion’ (Or whatever, it’s a suffix, dunno how it’s normally written). It’s not ‘ir’ and ‘rigation’. To irrigate something means to supply it with water.

prospero811: irrefutable is ir + refutable. Refutable is refute + able. There is no ‘fute’. To refute something means to overthrow it by argument, evidence, or proof.

boilerpsycho, senior, and beezhan: AGREED.

I can’t stand ‘irregardless’ and I cringe when people use it as well. It’s the same with ‘flammable’, which you covered earlier. Inflammable is inflame + able, not in + flammable. You can’t flame something, you inflame things. -.-