Daily Archives: August 16, 2007

Thirteen irregular word uses

To quote Calvin (of Calvin and Hobbes fame): “Verb­ing weirds lan­guage”. Impact is not a verb, no mat­ter how often peo­ple say “the plane impacted into the moun­tain­side”. Irre­gard­less is not a word. Regard­less of what you I might think. (How­ever, I still think it’s a point­less word mean­ing­less ver­bal bas­tard. (Thanks, Doug!)) Unthawed means