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by aeeeee 5169 days ago
I think we have gotten to the point where "irregardless" is acceptable, it's been used for 100 years and is in just about every dictionary.
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It's as much a word as anything else in the dictionary. Whether a redundant double-negative is truly "acceptable" is debatable, but hey, that's the English language for you.