misc/60574: The nonsensical word "irregardless" shows up in source comments too often

[Andy Ruhl]

>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
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>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Dec 25 17:10:13 PST 2003
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>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 at someplace.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KERNEL10  i386
>Description:
(andy at 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".
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