Who cares if it's in the dictionary? They call it a shibboleth. What that means is that when you say it, educated people will know that you are uneducated. Adding a redundant morpheme doesn't make you sound smarter, but if you say "irregardless," you probably don't know what that means.
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Who cares if it's in the dictionary? They call it a shibboleth. What that means is that when you say it, educated people will know that you are uneducated. Adding a redundant morpheme doesn't make you sound smarter, but if you say "irregardless," you probably don't know what that means.