Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 17:07:33 -0800 (PST) From: Andy Ruhl <quadreverb@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/60574: The nonsensical word "irregardless" shows up in source comments too often Message-ID: <200312260107.hBQ17Xhf059473@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200312260110.hBQ1ADfv035406@freefall.freebsd.org>
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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: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Dec 25 17:10:13 PST 2003 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >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: >Unformatted:
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