irregardless, 1876 (OED: 1912)

[Bonnie Taylor-Blake]

Today, Ben Zimmer wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Jesse Sheidlower
> <jester at panix.com> wrote:
> >
> > A much earlier Southern _irregardless_, posted here a few
> > years ago by Bonnie Taylor-Blake:
> >
> > 1795 _City Gaz. & Daily Advertiser_ (Charleston, S. Carolina)
> > (1796) 23 June 3 But death, irregardless of tenderest ties,
> > Resolv'd the good _Betty,_ at length, to bereave.
>
> Also reported by Richard Hershberger, giving the whole stanza:
>
>
http://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/irregardless-has-a-posse/#c
omment-3152

Rest assured, I would've never shorted the good Betty by trimming lines from
that last-stanza tribute:

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0705A&L=ADS-L&P=R10051&m=6
9698

-- Bonnie

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