New Adventures of Queen Victoria by Pab Sungenis for July 13, 2020

Merriam-Webster is no longer a dictionary.

Somehow, it seems funnier when Bugs Bunny says it.

Its documented use pre-dates Queen Victoria.

Well, that’s (ir)ritating.

OK for M-W, but what’s the lowdown from Oxford?

Irregardless, it’s still a word worth defending.

This is a war I can support. Just, no.

BOO HISS!!! It’s an abomination (as is “alright”)!

The Oxford comma is far more important.

We’ve already got too many words.

Let’s start getting rid of some. Like “arcane.”

From the people who decided an acronym (LOL) is a word. Regardless of its popularity, it is not a word. Agreeing with a bunch of people who are wrong does not make you right, it just provides you with company.

Merriam-Webster is owned by a Russian oligarch? SNERKS!

Irregardless of “irregardless”, it’s the word “inconceivable” that I have a problem with. Unless given a modifier, like “almost”, it has no useful meaning. In other words, you can’t really say something is inconceivable, because you conceived it to state that it’s inconceivable! ☺

Regardless of its widespread use, it is not a cromulent word.

Only three stars?

It does not say it’s a valid English word, it says very plainly that it’s a nonstandard word that should be avoided—just as does every other serious English dictionary, up to and including the Oxford English Dictionary. It is in dictionaries so that people can look it up and discover that it’s a nonstandard word, and so that foreigners and people in the future can look it up to discover what people are using it to mean, even if they shouldn’t. Oh, and it’s been in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, in particular, for decades. I have no idea why people are suddenly making a fuss.

Her Majesty should have also had on Groucho glasses, mustache and a cigar in her hand with that last line.(from Duck Soup)