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Originally Posted by j.p.s
Off topic, but I just have to vent. I just heard a reporter on the PBS news hour use the phrase "irregardless of zip code".
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"Irregardless" is accepted as nonstandard idiomatic English by the dictionaries and a barbaric word by the pundits. But the bottom line is that it is common in American English and so acceptable to descriptivists and objectionable to prescriptivists.