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Pooh-Bah
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> Conferences have delegates At my University, conferences have " CONFREREES  I find this quite offensive.
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Carpal Tunnel
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'attendee' must be a shoe size. It's NOT in my dictionary!
TEd
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teD, well, this caused me to look for it in W3, where it is given as a synonym for a sense of attendant which to my ear sounds even more strained! (the citation given is <attendants at the festival>) [try this: we were in attendance at the festival] 
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Pooh-Bah
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So the attendees and conferees could join the refugees in a jamboree .. tee hee!
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tswum tsitses: I react as to nails on a blackboard whenever I hear this careless blend of regardless and irrespective.
Irregardless of whether or not you do or don't care for it or not I always blend them with great care.
He only does it to annoy because he knows it teases
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>I always blend them with great care. fine; as long as you *know you're wrong. 
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