Kory Stamper, a lexicographer for Merriam-Webster and author of "Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries," told us that "irregardless" is a word in the dictionary, and how to use it correctly.

“Irregardless” was not just added to the dictionary. As Peter Sokolowski, editor at large for Merriam-Webster, tweeted in response to Chelsea Handler’s complaint, “irregardless” has “Been sitting ...

David is now a dear friend, but we got off to a rocky start. I had invited him and his wife over for dinner, and they were asking questions about my work as a linguist and historian of the English ...

Merriam-Webster insists irregardless is a word – but not everyone agrees with the dictionary’s take Merriam-Webster has weighed in on the debate over the word “irregardless”, confirming that it is a ...

Language is a living thing. There’s a reason “thee, thou, and thy” aren’t your pronouns, or why you probably didn’t compliment anyone by telling them they were “the bee’s knees” at any point in the ...

Do you use the word irregardless? Or, an even better question: have you ever had an argument about whether it's a word or not? That very debate has kicked off on social media (not for the first time) ...

December 4, 2017 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google No word receives as much lexical scorn as “irregardless”—I felt a shiver just typing it. But unlike the made-up ...

English majors, writers, word snobs, wordsmiths and general word nerds: I am about to turn your world upside down. I mean completely around and then upside down, like that Zipper carnival ride that ...

It’s happened again. An armchair language expert has declared a word to not be a word. She didn’t look up the word. She didn’t even look up the word “word.” If she had, she’d know that “shizzleschlep, ...

Merriam-Webster insists irregardless is a word – but not everyone agrees with the dictionary’s take Merriam-Webster has weighed in on the debate over the word “irregardless”, confirming that it is a ...