When someone tells you "Thank you", how do you reply? I typically say "You're welcome".
Ed
It depends a lot on your relationship with the person. The most formal answer is you're welcome or you're very welcome. Like for a social acquaintance, a customer, or your boss's boss.
A very close friend, of the same sex (male) we could get away with "no problem", "any time", or even a dismissive wave of the hand.
"Yep" is clearly not right - "Thank you" is not a yes or no question
and "That's OK" also seems inappropriate because thanks is not an apology.
"Thank you" is a piece of social ettiquette that requires a positive acknowledgement (not "duh") and the most polite of all, a brief comment to the fact that you would do it all again for them, with pleasure taken in doing it.
I've picked up and held on to "No worries" from our mates down under.
Count me in on this one (our companies head office is in New Zealand) and picked it up without noticing until someone pointed it out ... now I can't stop saying it
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn". by C.S. Lewis
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