My Meno — as I read this whole post, I was trying to figure out if you purposely used that word that isnt a real word in your title just to prove a point. I’m still not sure! 🤪

But, you do know, right? That the addition of ‘ir’ in front of ‘regardless’ is simply incorrect? Soooo many people say it anyway, likely because they’ve heard others doing so and assume it’s accurate.

It’s the same as the widespread butchering of the word ‘orient’ or ‘oriented’ — so many people say ‘orientate’ or ‘orientated’, likely because their brains lazily extrapolate that from the word ‘orientation’. Interestingly, it’s been so often used, it’s now been added to the dictionary as a ’needless variant’.

....like nails on chalkboard in my brain. 😬