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.
In the wake of JK Rowling’s comments on sex and gender, it really has become harder to be a Harry Potter fan.
In ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’, Severus Snape uses logic to convince Death Eaters, but pathos to persuade the heroes.
In ‘Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’, the werewolf Remus Lupin and his Marauder friends make the case for tokenism.
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…
Shannon and Weaver’s Mathematical Theory of Communication says good technical communication reduces noise, but Alton Brown says ‘wankiness’ is good eats.
In ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’, speech is as powerful a persuader as physical force, a lesson learned from Gorgias’s ‘Encomium of Helen’.