Even on NPR?

It's probably too much to expect perfection from a group of broadcast journalist who have to be subsidized by the government. I choke on the admission that I've become a "listener" of NPR, perhaps in an effort to relate to my colleagues a little more (most are devout NPR listeners, if not financial supporters), it's not the fashion for conservatives like me.

Now that I have listened to NPR a fair amount, I honestly do expect more of them than their cable and network counterparts. The utter stupidity of what you get on most cable news is intolerable... sadly, most people choose to tolerate the network that matches their political leanings (let's be honest, FOX for conservatives and basically the rest of the alphabet soup for liberals... ).

Without regard for your state of mind (red or blue) -- you should tolerate use of the non-word "irregrardless" in a report or diatribe. That would be "regardless" of your leanings, adding an extra syllable to a word, presumably to make yourself sound smarter, makes no sense.

It goes on the stack of words that, once uttered, reveal a fissure in one's credibility. Even, as was the case this week on NPR, one is reporting on the plight of working poor people in Latin America. When I hear that word, I consider that the speaker is lacking regard for my ears, thus it runs through the Thesaurus in my head as "ear-regardless."