| The American Heritage® Book of English Usage. |
A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English. 1996.
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2. Style: Parallelism, Passives, Redundancy, and Wordiness
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| § 27. revert back |
| You may be able to refer ahead but you can only revert back. Because the re- prefix means “back,” you may find it simpler to do nothing more than revert. Seventy-eight percent of the Usage Panel considers revert back to be redundant. | 1 |
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