Why is it that half of my inbox is now asking me to revert back to them instead of reply?

Dictionary says:
re·vert   (r-vûrt)
intr.v. re·vert·ed, re·vert·ing, re·verts
1. To return to a former condition, practice, subject, or belief.
2. Law To return to the former owner or to the former owner's heirs. Used of money or property.
3. Genetics To undergo reversion.

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[Middle English reverten, from Old French revertir, from Vulgar Latin *revertre, variant of Latin revertere : re-, re- + vertere, to turn; see wer-² in Indo-European roots.]

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It goes on to say that Since back is part of the meaning of revert, one should not say that someone reverts back to a certain type of behaviour.

If it were just the one email - I might have shrugged it off as a typo but it seems that half the company has started to substitute replying (or getting back to) with the word revert.

It irks the Grammar Nazi in me.

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