cannot: OED pronunciation again

[Dennis R. Preston]

'Irregardless' is live and well here in MI, but it's so damn cold
some people would say anything just to establish the fact that
phonation is possible under these circumstances.

In fact, I hear it all the time - on the news, on sports shows, and
on other TV shows (which I  monitor for linguistic purposes only).

dInIs

PS: I first typed "Irregradless" and the speller honked at me; I
changed it to "irregardless" and got no honk! Somebody up there loves
us.



>On Jan 17, 2005, at 9:28 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
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>>Subject:      Re: cannot:  OED pronunciation again
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>>At 5:41 PM -0800 1/17/05, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
>>>On Jan 17, 2005, at 4:02 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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>>>>On Jan 17, 2005, at 1:49 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>... As far as the Johnny Mac sort of case
>>>>
>>>>Et _tu_, Laurentie?! Nope, it can't be happening. Clearly, "[a]s far
>>>>as
>>>>the Johnny Mac sort of case...." must be a lapsus for "[a]s for the
>>>>Johnny Mac sort of case...."
>>>
>>>see:
>>>
>>>Rickford, John R.; Thomas A. Wasow; Norma Mendoza-Denton; & Juli
>>>Espinoza. 1995. Syntactic variation and change in progress: Loss of
>>>the
>>>verbal coda in topic-restricting _as far as_ constructions. Lg
>>>71.1.102-31.
>>>
>>>arnold, *not* a co-author
>>
>>Aha--there I am in the vanguard again.  Either that, or it was a
>>lapsus.  I forget which.
>>
>>larry
>>
>
>Sigh! Unfortunately, Lar, you're hardly in the vanguard. As far as "as
>far as NP" without "is concerned" is concerned, it's been around for so
>long that you may well be in the rearguard. Who knows? Like
>"irregardless," it may just die out. Actually, let me restructure that.
>*I* haven't heard anyone say "irregardless" in years, but my social
>life is not what it was fifty years ago. I don't get around much,
>anymore. So, I no longer have a clear idea of the language used in
>today's American street. "Irregardless" may not have died out. By sheer
>coincidence, I just haven't heard it. That's really all the farther
>that I can go.
>
>-Wilson