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Before people start bashing me, I know I'm far from perfect when it comes to grammar and spelling but please people stop using the word irregardless. Irregardless is non standard english at best and a double negative. It's about the same as saying "I ain't not going to the store". If irregardless was actually a proper english word it would basically mean you "HAVE REGARD" for something. Please look at the example below.  
 
The prefix ir- (i-r) is a negative prefix, so if you add the prefix ir to a word that's already negative like regardless, you're making a double-negative word that literally means “without without regard.”  
 
It seems pretty common for people to look up a word in a dictionary, and if it's there, they think it’s fine to use that word in every circumstance. It's the "Look, it's a word!" phenomenon.  
 
Thanks and don’t not have a nice day.