# People who say irrigardless **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 15, 2011, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-say-irrigardless/602987 "2011-11-15T06:18:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-say-irrigardless/602987/21 "2011-11-15T14:47:57Z")
**HBB** : You keep fighting the good fight, you cranky old language NAZI. Gotta say, I don’t use it myself, but it has lodge itself into our lexicon for better or worse. It’s not very unique in that way, either. Hopefully, the damage will stop there. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-say-irrigardless/602987/22 "2011-11-15T14:51:50Z")
This word is a running joke in my house. We once heard Phil Donahue going off about it, so now we use when we are trying to be funny. That and agreeance. I’m in agreeance with you! Something a girl I worked with used to say all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-say-irrigardless/602987/23 "2011-11-15T15:03:53Z")
Holy shit, Jazzercize excaped the eighties?! ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-say-irrigardless/602987/24 "2011-11-15T15:09:13Z")
I don’t really mind ‘irrigardless’ (though I don’t use that myself), but it seems that everyone is pronouncing especially (with a soft ‘s’) as expecially these days (with a hard ‘x’). Why is that? I never noticed a lot of people doing this before, but in the last few years it seems that everyone pronounces it that way now, and I actually get odd looks when I pronounce it what I presume is the correct way. 😕 (Another, perhaps related word is ask, pronounced like axe) -XT ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-say-irrigardless/602987/25 "2011-11-15T15:10:01Z")
I blame espresso. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-say-irrigardless/602987/26 "2011-11-15T15:10:06Z")
misuse of written language in general grates on me. And unfortunately [there’s a lot of it](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commonly_misused_English_words) “Irregardless” isn’t even on that list, and neither are many others, such as people writing about the breaks on their cars (“breaks” referring to the system of components used for deceleration). The example highlighted (or not highlighted, as it were) by **D\_Odds** is like fingernails on a chalkboard. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-say-irrigardless/602987/27 "2011-11-15T15:13:28Z")
Well, I could care less… ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-say-irrigardless/602987/28 "2011-11-15T15:21:46Z")
> [@DianaG](#): > > I blame espresso. I blame it on expresso. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-say-irrigardless/602987/29 "2011-11-15T15:46:32Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I see no less than six spelling or grammar errors in the OP. No _fewer_. 😉 Doesn’t “irrigardless” have something to do with watering crops? ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-say-irrigardless/602987/30 "2011-11-15T15:56:28Z")
nevermind ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-say-irrigardless/602987/31 "2011-11-15T15:59:01Z")
Mmm, expresso. It’s the penultimate coffee! ---
**Author:** ![Iggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Iggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggins)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-say-irrigardless/602987/32 "2011-11-15T16:06:11Z")
I must be one of the few people who have never (or very rarely) heard this in person. Maybe my friends know that words have meaning? I’ve also only heard one or two people ever use “literally” incorrectly. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-say-irrigardless/602987/33 "2011-11-15T16:07:58Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > No _fewer_. 😉 Well, Gaudere gives me a mulligan for that one. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-say-irrigardless/602987/34 "2011-11-15T16:25:02Z")
And I’m sure you all know what common English word is always spelled incorrectly. “incorrectly” ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-say-irrigardless/602987/35 "2011-11-15T16:28:15Z")
NM, Biffy beat me to it. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-say-irrigardless/602987/36 "2011-11-15T16:30:31Z")
I had a boss that constantly used honesty/honestly interchangeably. In all honestly. I wanted to kill her. Honesty I did. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-say-irrigardless/602987/37 "2011-11-15T16:33:22Z")
I have a friend who constantly says pass instead of past. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-say-irrigardless/602987/38 "2011-11-15T16:35:18Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > I had a boss that constantly used honesty/honestly interchangeably. > > In all honestly. > > I wanted to kill her. Honesty I did. I want to kill people who use “that” instead of “who”. > [@tdn](#): > > I have a friend who constantly says pass instead of past. What’s his heighth? Maybe you should reach acrossed and smack him. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-say-irrigardless/602987/39 "2011-11-15T16:38:15Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > It’s simple confusion, really. _Irrespective_ and _regardless_ are synonyms, so it’s easy to put _irr_ in front of _regardless_ by mistake. And, since we are creatures of habit, it becomes a word. Somehow, I don’t think many who would say ‘irregardless’ would ever have heard of the word ‘irrespective’. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-say-irrigardless/602987/40 "2011-11-15T17:02:13Z")
My job is connected to the public school system. I just this minute received a fax concerning a literacy program that had the word “literacy” misspelled. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-say-irrigardless/602987.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-say-irrigardless/602987.md?page=3)