per?

[hykue]

Everyone at work uses the phrase "as per" and it kind of drives me crazy because I've always thought it's supposed to be just "per". A little bit of googling has brought be no help whatsoever, since most of the sites I saw weren't arguing the grammatical correctness of the phrase, but rather how stuffy or archaic it sounds. Is "as per" acceptable

Comments

[luciab]

I'm with you, though I have no authority to back it up. As far as I know, per means "according to" so "as per" would be "as according to."

[jwpandabear]

With your definition, the addition of "as" seems superfluous. So if you wanted to write with clarity, I would get rid of the "as".

[internought]

I think both "per" and "as per" are fine. I have no problem with "Sahara Desert" either.

[kinkyturtle]

That's a strange way to spell "Sara Lee Dessert"!

[ohikennedy]

I don't have a reference to back me up, but I've assumed that the (relatively recent) rise of as per was a careless redundancy of business jargon, like past history in medical documentation & PIN number in everyday speech.

From the Oxford English Dictionary:

[teratocarcinoma]

Per, prep. I. For