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. -- Eric A. Meyer (eric@meyerweb.com) http://meyerweb.com/Received on Wednesday, 2 December 2009 19:48:31 UTC
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