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Originally Posted By: zmjezhdirregardless
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
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