..and words are all I have to say.. bee gee's,1978 Recently, NPR's Morning Edition explored Merriam-Webster's (MW) affirmation of the word, irregardless . It seems inclusion of the word in the latest cyclopedia triggered a social media firestorm and upset some grammarians around the world. HUH ? What's up with that? decided to look into this pseudo calamity and find out what the experts have to say about the ensuing outcry. We also decided to check out some other word oddities . The definition of the dreaded i word, irregular, is...... without without regard . Grammarian Jim Zoch says, The word has elements of the double negative at the beginning (ir) and at the end (less), a locution that goes back through Chaucer in the Middle Ages and even to the Angle-Saxon period when emphasis was achieved through building up double negatives. That would seem to support MW's contention th...
