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From: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
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Subject: Re: Semantic Reversals (irregardless)
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Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 00:08:28 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  7 00:08:28 1985
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Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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> => 	irregardless - adv. *Nonstandard*. Regardless.
> 
> ... Honestly, now, who out there thinks that nonstandard words should
> be included in the dictionary as acceptable usages?  (This is a serious
> question.)

The serious answer is, those who believe dictionaries should be
*descriptive* rather than *prescriptive* -- i.e., that they should
tell you what someone else means when they use a word, rather than
what you should mean when you use it. And they *didn't* say it was
acceptable -- they labeled it "nonstandard".

Mark Brader