Early appearances of "irregardless"

[Mark A. Mandel]

I wrote:
>I seem to remember some discussion of this usage by Whorf (?). Can anyone
>pin that down?

Larry replied:
>Yes, that was the reference to Whorf and "cryptotype" I gave in my
>earlier message.

Actually I hadn't seen that, since I read this list in digest form once a
day. I was thinking of something maybe a few years back. But the Whorf
reference is indeed what I was thinking of. Thanks.

-- Mark
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