The publishing company Merriam-Webster, known for its dictionaries, sarcastically said that the English language is “literally dead” after a Twitter user expressed displeasure over the dictionary defining a word. Merrian-Webster has defined the word ‘irregardless’, saying it is same as ‘regardless’ and used in non-standard English. as a People… I feel we just got a little Dumber.
Merriam-Webster said that of course, it is a word and people may refer to it as a bad word, a silly word, a word they don’t like, or by a number of other descriptors. It added that, however, to deny that a specific collection of letters used by many people for hundreds of years to mean a definite thing is a word is to deny the obvious.
