Originally Posted By: zmjezhd
irregardless

My superior intuition about the prefix in irregardless is that it is the same intensifier as the in- in inflammable.


and my innate cynicism informs me that irregardless really was (originally) just a fortuitous* blend of regardless and irrespective -- in the latter of which the prefix -ir is not an intensifier, but a negation.

*and I don't mean lucky!!

-joe (each of us succumbs to peevology on occasion) friday