#In regards to professional#

“As regards content, I think we should reference our website.”.People tend to get confused because “as regards” is another way to introduce a topic, but it sounds a bit stiff. “With regard to my last email, I wanted to review the progress of the project.”.“The website has no references in regard to the benefits of the product.”.A person who feels you have offended them might very well find it a far more satisfactory use of time to post a warning on facebook to avoid using your site.When it comes to the phrases “in regard to” and “in regards to,” the correct phrase is “in regard to” or “with regard to.” It stands to reason that you or someone went to the trouble of creating a website so people would actually use it. Why bother using your site when there are many more to choose from? If you want people to bother choosing your site for information and help, don’t insult them for making a mistake. In an otherwise helpful posting, your unnecessarily snarky zinger, “…the educationally challenged,” is basically offering a person help with one hand and slapping him or her in the face with the other. Maybe now I should change “Sam I am” to “Maeve the ma’am”. I do not like it, and I will not eat it, Sam I am. Seuss now about “in regard to” – Not with a fox, not in a box, not in a train, not in the rain, not in a park, not in the dark. They get to use three words instead of just one! How about “in connection with”? That also looks quite wordy to me. Once again, I think that those who use “in regard to” or “in regards to” are just trying to sound like wordy chromedomes.

Maeve, I do not like the phrase “in regard to”, either, because this three-word phrase can readily be changed to a single word, as you have pointed out in your article: “about, regarding, concerning.” Want to improve your English in five minutes a day? Get a subscription and start receiving our writing tips and exercises daily! Keep learning! Browse the Expressions category, check our popular posts, or choose a related post below: Speakers who find it difficult to remember to omit the “s” can avoid nonstandard “in regards to” and “with regards to” by using regarding in their place. The noun regard does take the plural in certain other idioms. In the expressions “in regard to” and “with regard to,” regard is a noun in the expression “as regards,” regards is a verb. The phrase “in regard to” means “about, regarding, concerning.” Speakers who put an “s” on regard in “in regard to” and “with regard to” are perhaps confusing these phrases with “as regards”:Īs regards your question concerning the membership of the Universal House…īBC policy as regards interviewers/journalists and their relationship with government officials McDonalds in regards to globalization and business change –title of an essay offered at a UK site Nitrogen Inversion in regards to Stereochemistry –title of study guide at ICA President McLean Changes Tune in Regards to CCE –headline at The Chronicle of Chiropractic

#In regards to professional#

Here are some examples from sites that aspire to some sort of professional expertise:Įlasticity of Ridership In Regards to Transit Fare and Service Changes –headline over an article Nonstandard “in regards to” continues to spread, and not just on blogs and in comments written by the educationally challenged. Apparently quite a few English speakers have managed to avoid reading any of them. A web search for “in regards to” brings up 680 million links, thousands of which lead to articles telling readers that “in regards to” is nonstandard English.