On Sat, 20 Jan 2018 11:08:31 +0000, Tim Streater
wrote:

In article , Roger Hayter
wrote:

Tim Streater wrote:

In article , Roger Hayter
wrote:

I wonder if comprehendible is in the same state of development as
'irregardless'? In other words, it is so widely used by relatively new,
or ex-colonial, English speakers who do not know the word
'comprehensible' that it is in at least the New World dictionaries, but
it still sounds wrong to more widely read English speakers.

'irregardless' is not a word.

Neither is 'comprehendible'; but both are in recent editions of
American dictionaries. 'Inspirational' is not a word either, but has
become nearly universal even in the UK.

We shouldn't be giving currency to these non-words, even if lazy
snip expletive
like T i m think they are able

'Think'?

to produce references for them.

Because I did! I hope that annoys and offends you even more (and I
think it does). ;-)

The best thing about using modern words is that it winds the left
brained dinosaurs and self appointed spelling / grammar cops up (in a
d-i-y group ffs)!

Cheers, T i m