It’s happened again. An armchair language expert has declared a word to not be a word. She didn’t look up the word. She didn’t even look up the word “word.” If she had, she’d know that “shizzleschlep, ...

However, the definition for "irregardless" has been included in Merriam-Webster's Unabridged edition since 1934. In early July 2020, social media users asked Snopes.com to verify whether it was true ...

“Irregardless” was not just added to the dictionary. As Peter Sokolowski, editor at large for Merriam-Webster, tweeted in response to Chelsea Handler’s complaint, “irregardless” has “Been sitting ...

English majors, writers, word snobs, wordsmiths and general word nerds: I am about to turn your world upside down. I mean completely around and then upside down, like that Zipper carnival ride that ...

Kory Stamper, a lexicographer for Merriam-Webster and author of "Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries," told us that "irregardless" is a word in the dictionary, and how to use it correctly.

Aside from my personal mission to convince the planet that Mark Morrison’s “Return of the Mack” is the greatest song of all time, the only other conversation I feel super passionately about is about ...

Merriam-Webster insists irregardless is a word – but not everyone agrees with the dictionary’s take Merriam-Webster has weighed in on the debate over the word “irregardless”, confirming that it is a ...

Merriam-Webster raised the hackles of stodgy grammarians last week when it affirmed the lexical veracity of "irregardless." The word's definition, when reading it, would seem to be: without without ...

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) at the Capitol during a reconvening of a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6. (Win Mcnamee/Getty Images) Analysis by Valerie Strauss Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sparked a ...