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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 29 Aug 2013

    If you get your knickers in a twist over "irregardless," you must watch this short video on the Merriam-Webster site-http://bit.ly/15j0Kq4 

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      2. Bonnie Taylor-Blake‏ @btaylorblake 29 Aug 2013
        Replying to @sapinker

        .@sapinker @PeterSokolowski Nice! Small note: "irregardless" was in U.S. speech by ca. 1860 (1795 for an early find), http://ow.ly/onLSl 

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      3. Peter Sokolowski‏Verified account @PeterSokolowski 29 Aug 2013
        Replying to @btaylorblake

        @goheels1114 Is that your own research? Well done. @sapinker

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      1. Reed Roberts‏ @ReedRoberts 29 Aug 2013
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker Burn the descriptivists!

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      1. xpostfactoid‏ @xpostfactoid 29 Aug 2013
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        @sapinker I could care less.

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      1. Nick Doody‏ @NickDoody 29 Aug 2013
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        @sapinker Well, nonregardful of that, I still think she's unright.

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      1. Brandon Hudgeons‏ @bhudgeons 29 Aug 2013
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        Irregardless is a real word. But you still shouldn’t use it. http://www.merriam-webster.com/video/0037-irregardless.htm … /ht @sapinker @psnively

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      1. Kevin Garvey‏ @zenzenkevin 29 Aug 2013
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        @sapinker that word is perfectly cromulent

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      1. Jesse Phaler‏ @jphaler 29 Aug 2013
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker Hah!.. Insisting "in spite of all the evidence to the contrary, is just different kind of ignorance". #sotrue

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      1. Samantha Zaboski‏ @SammyZabo 29 Aug 2013
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        @sapinker I'm nonplussed.

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      2. Níčhölás Rees‏ @NicholasRees1 29 Aug 2013
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker does being in the dictionary define a word is a word? OK, so what about all the words that get taken out...no longer words?

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      3. Rupert Bear‏ @RupertThomson 29 Aug 2013
        Replying to @NicholasRees1

        @NicholasRees1 Dictionaries don't set the standard, they simply record useage. Think of how we commonly use "Incredible", and "Pathetic".

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      4. Níčhölás Rees‏ @NicholasRees1 29 Aug 2013
        Replying to @RupertThomson

        @RupertThomson right, so they should not be used as an authority on what is and what is not a word - never comprehensive and always outdated

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      5. Rupert Bear‏ @RupertThomson 29 Aug 2013
        Replying to @NicholasRees1

        @NicholasRees1 They have value in education, and helping mutual intelligibility, that's important. And in the same vein, as historical docs.

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      6. Níčhölás Rees‏ @NicholasRees1 29 Aug 2013
        Replying to @RupertThomson

        @RupertThomson they are definitely valuable resources but will never be 100% correct

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      7. Rupert Bear‏ @RupertThomson 29 Aug 2013
        Replying to @NicholasRees1

        @NicholasRees1 Agreed.

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      1. Camilla Lang‏ @CamillaAu 29 Aug 2013
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        @sapinker "Knickers in a knot", no?

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      1. M. Lynx Qualey‏ @arablit 29 Aug 2013
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        @sapinker Better still: Don't wear knickers. They're prone to twistiness.

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      1. Jason Evan Mihalko‏ @jaypsyd 29 Aug 2013
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        Now I am thinking of Pinker in knickers. @sapinker If you get your knickers in a twist over "irregardless," http://bit.ly/15j0Kq4 

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