Early appearances of "irregardless"

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 06:30:28AM -0700, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> I could swear - but won't quite - that I too used to say "to unopen" (jars, for example).

There's also _unpacked_ 'still packed' which Larry has
mentioned on the list, and Ben and I have argued with Geoff
Nunberg about on Language Log
(http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002171.html,
and links there to earlier discussions).

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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