>>>>The worst offender is the dictionary. Notice how after a word has been used incorrectly over a period of years the incorrect usage gets added to the dictionary and then it becomes acceptable?
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>>>You're
awful. Irregardless... my concern is when I'm holding a lit match in a tunnel where there are 2 paths, one labelled
inflammable and the other
flammable...
regardless of which way I go I'm
terrific.
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>>I thought "irregardless" was only used by Americans who also say "Supposably" and "heighth" :-)
>
>And Febuary ...
Do you guys normally pronounce the first "R" in February then, cos we don't? - FEB-EW-UHRY or FEB-YUHRY
I think the "irregardless" thing comes from a mix-up with "... irrespective of the difference in age ..." ???
The expression that cracks me up is: "on account of..." - "I gotta paint the lounge on account of I spilled beer on da wall."
and
"I don't gotta do nuthin'"
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.