Word: irregardless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apprehended the alleged perpetrator." (In a bar, the cop would say, "I collared this creep.") Eventually, all officialese takes on a mindless life of its own, the words combining and recombining according to some notion in the bureaucratic inner ear of how public language ought to sound, regardless (or irregardless, as they say) of what it means. This is an aerosol English, released by pushing a button. Writer Jimmy Breslin describes what is perhaps the ultimate in this prose: a policeman, testifying in a homicide case, refers to "the alleged victim...
...quoted George Putnam, Treasurer of the University, as saying he was looking for "a top investment policy man with administrative experience" to head the new Harvard Management Company. I believe the University's Affirmative Action Plan and Government regulations require that all positions be open to all qualified candidates irregardless of sex, race, creed, etc. This kind of statement by a top officer of the University clearly demonstrates the continuing insensitivity of the Administration to the spirit necessary for an Affirmative Action Plan which will be acceptable to both minorities and women, as well as to HEW. Equity...
...single location of the bird. The sense of bird is even more real in these empty pictures than if Huebler had merely painted or photographed a bird flying from tree to tree. Huebler's arbitrary system evokes the experience that we have individually when we follow a bird call, irregardless of whether it is the motion we would go through in the same situation...
...Hubert Humphrey and Hugh Scott were recently dispatched to Li'l Abner's Dogpatch to learn why it is the one pollution-free spot in the U.S. Reason: the Gobbleglops, which look like pigs with bunny tails, gobble up, in the words of Mammy Yokum, "all glop, irregardless . . . They's natcheral-born incinerators. Thass why glop goes in 'em an' none comes out!!" Pogo has been invaded in recent months by an odd beast, half Great Dane and half hyena, that looks and alliterates like Spiro T. Agnew, by a bulldog that might be taken...