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From: Andy Ruhl <quadreverb@yahoo.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: The nonsensical word "irregardless" shows up in source comments too often
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>Number:         60574
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       The nonsensical word "irregardless" shows up in source comments too often
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    smkelly
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Dec 25 17:10:13 PST 2003
>Closed-Date:    Thu Apr 22 03:14:22 PDT 2004
>Last-Modified:  Thu Apr 22 03:20:12 PDT 2004
>Originator:     Andy Ruhl
>Release:        4.8
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD someplace.net 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0: Wed Dec 24 06:48:33 MST 2003     root@someplace.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KERNEL10  i386
>Description:
(andy@foghorn)[/usr/src] > grep -r -H irregardless *
contrib/texinfo/info/window.c:/* The size of the echo area in Info.  It never changes, irregardless of the
games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2:unnecessary.  Eschew dialect, irregardless.  And don't start a sentence with
gnu/usr.bin/as/config/obj-vms.c: * longer than 31 characters, irregardless of the setting of the -h switch.
share/dict/web2:irregardless
share/man/tools/newsp.errs:irregardless
sys/dev/aic7xxx/aic79xx.seq:     * we are selecting with atn irregardless of our packetized
sys/i386/conf/LINT:# irregardless of whether other swap devices exist or not.  So it

It's use in fortune probably shouldn't be changed.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
s/irregardless/regardless/g

Some dictionaries contain the word irregardless, even though it isn't really a word. In use it is almost always mistaken for regardless, probably because regardless doesn't sound "negative enough".
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: smkelly 
State-Changed-When: Thu Apr 22 03:12:43 PDT 2004 
State-Changed-Why:  
Changing a word in source code comments because it isn't in the 
dictionary isn't necessary. Only one addressable instance of this 
word appears to remain. m-w.com says it is a word. 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->smkelly 
Responsible-Changed-By: smkelly 
Responsible-Changed-When: Thu Apr 22 03:12:43 PDT 2004 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Changing a word in source code comments because it isn't in the 
dictionary isn't necessary. Only one addressable instance of this 
word appears to remain. m-w.com says it is a word. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=60574 

From: Sean Kelly <smkelly@FreeBSD.org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, quadreverb@yahoo.com
Cc:  
Subject: misc/60574: The nonsensical word "irregardless" shows up in source comments too often
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 05:11:19 -0500

 Hello. You asserted that 'irregardless' is not a word. Please see
 http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=irregardless
 Specifically, the part that says:
 
      The most frequently repeated remark about it is that "there is
      no such word." There is such a word, however.
 
 Setting that aside, I don't think it is in our best interest to spend time
 changing words in source code comments. On my 5.2-CURRENT machine, I only
 see 4 references as of this date.
      1 in a dictionary
      1 in fortune
      1 in contrib code from a vendor branch
      1 in the aic7xxx kernel driver
 
 So three of those four aren't even really addressable.
 
 -- 
 Sean Kelly          | PGP KeyID: D2E5E296
 smkelly@FreeBSD.org | http://www.sean-kelly.org/
>Unformatted:
