Lol. And what I tend to perceive as being "basic science" is off-kilter from having a college degree in science. >_> It's hard for me to keep reminding myself that no, Average Joe probably doesn't know that...


"Irregardless" is a double-negative, non-standard, and many would argue that it technically does not exist as a word. Here's Dictionary.com's entry on the word.

To me, Mirage would lean towards more "proper" words and 'irregardless' falls pretty far from that in my experience. My perspective is probably also biased by seeing a lot of threads on various forums ranting about various spelling and grammatical errors, and the use of "irregardless" seems to pop up every time.