re

re

meaning ‘with regard to, concerning’, is a piece of commercialese that is best suited to business language. In everyday writing it is a convenient abbreviation that is less troubling when it stands at the beginning of a statement, especially in the rapid-turnover world of faxes and emails where it fits nicely: Re your invitation, yes I'd like to come. The strictures of Fowler (1926) and A. P. Herbert (1935) were not of the real world.