@ryanhoover @SYKOScoRch Hi! I’m so sorry. It was just pointed out to me that these characters don’t work well with screen readers either. This is the first and last time I’m going to use them. I will post the text of the problematic tweets below. @ryanhoover @SYKOScoRch There are *plenty* of morphologically irregular words in English. For example, there are approximately 200 verbs with irregular past tense forms. Yet no one is up in arms that we say sang, wrote, and was instead of sing+ed, write+ed, and be+ed.

By now you've probably seen the vitriol against "irregardless" being considered a "real word". I wanted to discuss the actual science (linguistics) behind words like this because quite frankly, it's beautiful and a little surprising. 🧵 Before I begin, you should know that linguists (who love all their words equally, of course) will tell you that dictionaries are not the arbiters of language, people are. A word's only a word because people use it.