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Dictionaries are descriptive rather than prescriptive. Dictionaries record the current usage, not some rules of language.

I would say irregardless is a word. It hasn't made it into dictionaries because it's been misused, it's made it into dictionaries because it's been in use!

Irregardless of your thoughts on the matter; people use literally differently than you do. Why are you correct and they are wrong?

Thanks! Fixed. I actually wrote regardless at first but it seemed wrong when I revisited the comment.

200 years of use isn't long enough for you? It's a word.