the.com/revert
the polite corporate way of saying 'I will get back to you,' possibly never.
means to return to a previous state or reply again after a pause, though in office-speak it usually just means 'reply.'
from from latin revertere, 'to turn back' — a perfectly good word for reversal that Indian English quietly repurposed to mean 'respond,' and now it lives in inboxes worldwide.
indian englishstandard for 'reply,' not reversal, since colonial-era usage
legal useoriginally meant land returning to its original owner
genetics sensean organism reverting to an ancestral trait