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To: P8riot

There’s a difference in quality.

“Irregardless” is not a word.

“Nukular” is a word, just a wrongly pronounced one.


344 posted on 05/29/2007 11:39:59 AM PDT by Xenalyte (You have to defile a mummy completely, or they come back to life. You know that.)
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To: Xenalyte

> “Irregardless” is not a word.

I used to drive my Dad nuts with my insistence in using Irregardless.

“No such word!” He’d fume.

“Sure there is,” I’d reply. “Irregard is the absence of Regard. Irregard-less means with even Less irregard than the normal amount...”

“No! No! NO!” the hapless English-teacher would fulminate at his smartass son...


397 posted on 05/29/2007 2:14:51 PM PDT by DieHard the Hunter
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