> Heh. Brings back memories of the Nonsensical
>Idioms thread. And on that topic, let's not
>forget "irregardless". As I mentioned in that
>thread, I had a teacher a while back who
>correctly said "couldn't care less", but only a
>few seconds later uttered "irregardless".
>[cringing] Now *that* contrast truly grated on my
>ears...

That's why I'm all in favor of the suggestion to use "disirregardless". By adding in another negative, it makes it correct again (for those of us who know how these things work in the first place) and just makes it THAT MUCH MORE NEGATIVE to the people who started using "irregardless" in the first place because "regardless" wasn't negative enough for them.

-- Dave