responding back

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Ben Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
> And these days (esp. in S. Asia) there's also "revert back"

"These days"? "S. Asia"? "Also?"

_Revert back_ is, IME, as old as I am and far more common. It's _reply
back_ and _respond back_ that are new and strange to me. Of course,

YMMV.

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