Irregardless Magazine has been offering up stuff and nonsense for the literary mind for exactly 10 years now. And yet, somehow we’ve never covered the etymology of the word irregardless. Was it too meta? Or just a missed opportunity? Regardless, now seems like as good a time as any to correct that mistake. So let’s…
The Batman. Hospital. The Ohio State. Facebook. There’s no greater sweetness in life than adding or removing the definite article ‘the’.
Are tomatoes fruits or vegetables? Well that depends on how you define fruits and vegetables. And are we talking botanically, culinarily or legally?
Call him Santa Claus, Sinterklass or St Nicholas, he is a product of many cultures from Turkey to Catholics to the Celts to the Netherlands to New Yorkers.
Have you ever wondered what coronavirus means and why we call it that? And why do some people call it CoViD-19? Well, actually it’s pretty simple…
The Internet’s filled with interesting factoids, but not the ones you think. For example, did you know Norman Mailer coined the word to mean ‘bullshit’?
No, ‘scuttlebutt’ is not that thing your dog keeps doing on the nice carpet. It’s actually an old sailor’s term for ‘gossip’ with a fascinating history.
Ever wonder who St Valentine was and why Chaucer keeps inventing all these damn holidays? It has a little something to do with the birds and bees.
What do Snow White, Johnny Appleseed and HW Fowler have to do with the Autumn Equinox (or ‘Fall’ Equinox as Fowler would prefer it)?
What does smurf mean? According to Peyo and Franquin it either means ‘salt’ or ‘stocking’ or whatever the smurf you want it to mean.