Forgot about Strunk and White! Pg 50, Irregardless should be
regardless. The error results from failure to see the negsative in -less
and from a desire to get (sic) it as a prefix, ...
Chris opr VE7HCB
At 01:08 AM 2002-07-17 +0000, Eddy Avila wrote:
>Check "The Elements of Style" by E.B. White, pg 44 ..../73 ....ed
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>>From: Chris BONDE <ve7hcb@rac.ca>
>>To: "Eddy Avila" <k6sdw@hotmail.com>
>>CC: towertalk@contesting.com
>>Subject: Re: [Towertalk] Jim, good catch!
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
>>Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 22:36:26 -0700
>>
>>I looked in my small dictionaries and could not find it. That is the
>>Concise Oxford (UK), New Webster (US) and Gage (CA)
>>
>>Chris opr VE7HCB
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>>At 08:48 PM 2002-07-15 +0000, Eddy Avila wrote:
>>>This what the Good Book (Dictionary) sez:
>>>
>>>ir·re·gard·less (r-gärdls)
>>>adv. Nonstandard
>>>Regardless.
>>>
>>>
>>>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>[Probably blend of irrespective, and regardless.]
>>>Usage Note: Irregardless is a word that many mistakenly believe to be
>>>correct usage in formal style, when in fact it is used chiefly in
>>>nonstandard speech or casual writing. Coined in the United States in the
>>>early 20th century, it has met with a blizzard of condemnation for being
>>>an improper yoking of irrespective and regardless and for the logical
>>>absurdity of combining the negative ir- prefix and -less suffix in a
>>>single term. Although one might reasonably argue that it is no different
>>>from words with redundant affixes like debone and unravel, it has been
>>>considered a blunder for decades and will probably continue to be so.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>From: "Jim Reid" <jimr.reid@verizon.net>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > was the uniquest of the unique, irregardless of others not...
>>>> >
>>>> > English is not yet a dead language but assaults such as this
>>>> > are killing it by degree.
>>>>
>>>>Tim, Is "irregardless" a real word in the English language?
>>>>
>>>>73, Jim KH7M
>>>
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