"regarding" or "regarding to"?

[dihen]

Should I use "regarding something" or "regarding to something"?

[Mariner]

In 90% of the cases, "regarding"

e.g. "Regarding your request, I shall answer you tomorrow"

Amazingly, there's a great number of hits in Google. I would actually consider "Regarding to your request" ungrammatical but there's 1-2 hits in British National Corpus, so I might be wrong. However, in both cases the speaker's country of origin is unknown, which probably means they're not native speakers.

Don't confuse "regarding to" with "regard to". This is frequently used, as in this sentence:
"He's crossed the Rubicon with regard to the use of military force as an option."

PS
Perhaps "regarding to your request" is grammatical in some dialect, e.g. AmE?? Some native American speaker could enlighten us..

[MikeNewYork]

Originally Posted by Mariner

In 90% of the cases, "regarding"

e.g. "Regarding your request, I shall answer you tomorrow"

Amazingly, there's a great number of hits in Google. I would actually consider "Regarding to your request" ungrammatical but there's 1-2 hits in British National Corpus, so I might be wrong. However, in both cases the speaker's country of origin is unknown, which probably means they're not native speakers.

Don't confuse "regarding to" with "regard to". This is frequently used, as in this sentence:
"He's crossed the Rubicon with regard to the use of military force as an option."

PS
Perhaps "regarding to your request" is grammatical in some dialect, e.g. AmE?? Some native American speaker could enlighten us..

No, that is not grammatical in American English either. So the BNC has problems simlar to Google's, eh?

[BobK]

Originally Posted by dihen

Should I use "regarding something" or "regarding to something"?

"Regarding something"
"With regard to something"
and
"As regards something"

are all fine. There is a (in my view, lamentable) tendency for many native speakers to confuse these last two, and say "With regards to something". I regard it as A Bad Thing, but it's happening.

b

[MrPedantic]

I would actually consider "Regarding to your request" ungrammatical but there's 1-2 hits in British National Corpus, so I might be wrong.

No, I think you're right, Mariner: in standard BrE, it would be ungrammatical.

The second of the examples in the BNC comes from a Leeds Utd email:

"...goals in 12 matches in England is not at all impressive; the chances keep coming all the time in games over here". So too bad that Wilko would not give the guy a real chance --; specially regarding to the stuff that that Wilko spoke when Frank signed. Well --; i wish Frank good luck and i --;really--; hope he keeps them goals coming down in Spain too give Wilko some sleepless nights … What a week: Batts..."

There are 5 non-standard phrases in this short text; though some of them may be due to hasty typing (e.g. #2 and #5).

MrP

[dihen]

So no native speakers would say "regarding to"?

[Tdol]

'No native speakers;' might be an overstatement, but very few.

[MikeNewYork]

Originally Posted by dihen

So no native speakers would say "regarding to"?

How about, "No native speakers should...."

[dihen]

Originally Posted by MikeNewYork

How about, "No native speakers should...."

Why? What would that mean there?, "No native speakers are supposed to...."?

[MikeNewYork]

Originally Posted by dihen

Why? What would that mean there?, "No native speakers are supposed to...."?

That would be a rough translation.