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Originally Posted by rhadin
"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.
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Despite my goofy answer, if I heard a reporter use irregardless on PBS of all places, I'd probably complain too.