- From: Eric A. Meyer <eric@meyerweb.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 14:47:47 -0500
- To: www-style@w3.org
At 11:20 AM -0800 12/2/09, Brad Kemper wrote:
>Sorry, I apparently mispoke. I meant to say, 'Enough people use
>"irregardless" to make it an actual word.' And yes, dictionaries do
>so too. For instance, WordNet (quoted below) and my spell-check both
>recognize it as a word.
Enough people use "ain't" to make it an actual word that shows up
in dictionaries too, but I wouldn't expect to see it in a W3C
specification. Because, exactly as with "irregardless", it's
generally marked as incorrect, erroneous, or at best informal slang.
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Eric A. Meyer (eric@meyerweb.com) http://meyerweb.com/
Received on Wednesday, 2 December 2009 19:48:31 UTC