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[bob jenkins]

Originally posted by phillips.alex
They are both words, meaning the same thing. another example: swam and swum.

??? "swam" and "swum" are not synonyms.

You are correct that (1) the English language changes*, and that, (2) "irregardless" is becoming more common. I'm not oppoed to the changes in language, but I fail to see how this is beneficial -- it doesn't add anything to the definition, doesn't simplify the description, it isn't shorter, or more precise, ...

* -- On the basketball board, someone posted an interesting claim about "you" being plural. Just yesterday in the newspaper there was an article about how "you" had replaced "thee," "thou," and "ye" in a relatively short period of time back in the 1500s. The word "you" originally had one grammatical job (plural object); now it has four.

Note 1: I intentionally placed any grammatical, spelling or other errors in this post to provide pleasure to the reader in finding and correcting any such mistakes.

Note 2: While reading through my dictionary to research this post, I discovered that the word "gullible" is not in the dictionary. Interesting.